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Title: Are batterers different from other criminals? An fMRI study
Author: Bueso Izquierdo, Natalia
Verdejo Román, Juan
Contreras Rodríguez, Oren
Carmona Perera, Martina
Pérez García, Miguel
Hidalgo Ruzzante, Natalia
Keywords: Violència conjugal
Cervell
Marital violence
Brain
Issue Date: May-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex and global phenomenon that requires a multi-perspective analysis. Nevertheless, the number of neuroscientific studies conducted on this issue is scarce as compared with studies of other types of violence, and no neuroimaging studies comparing batterers to other criminals have been conducted. Thus, the main aim of this study was to compare the brain functioning of batterers to that of other criminals when they are exposed to IPV or general violence pictures. An fMRI study was conducted in 21 batterers and 20 other criminals while they observed IPV images (IPVI), general violence images (GVI) and neutral images (NI). Results demonstrated that batterers, compared with other criminals, exhibited a higher activation in the anterior and posterior cingulate cortex and in the middle prefrontal cortex and a decreased activation in the superior prefrontal cortex to IPVI compared to NI. The paired t-test comparison between IPVI and GVI for each group showed engagement of the medial prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate and the left angular cortices to IPVI in the batterer group only. These results could have important implications for a better understanding of the IPV phenomenon.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw020
It is part of: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2016, vol. 11, num. 5, p. 852-862
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/126850
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw020
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