ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2015
The Neurobiology and Psychology of Pedophilia: Recent Advances and Challenges.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 156 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mapping current research on biomarkers associated with the diagnosis of pedophilia: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive profiles of paedophilic behaviour: a meta-analytic and systematic review of developmental vs acquired forms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Idiopathic and acquired pedophilia as two distinct disorders: an insight from neuroimaging.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Pooled it
- Sexual Dysregulation After Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke: A Critical Narrative Review of Neurobiology, Clinical Phenotypes, and Management.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Incidental resolution of pedophilia in a patient undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): a case report and long-term follow-up.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Rare, but potentially risky, high individual increase of self-reported sexual arousal in men, who have committed sexual offenses against children, while being confronted with experimental sexual stimuli - a retrospective data analysis.International journal of impotence research · 2025Article
- Neuroanatomical and Neurocognitive Differences Between the Executive Functions in Child Sexual Offenders: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The Vulnerability Typology: Developing a Biopsychosocial-Sexual Understanding of Men With Sexual Interests in Children.Sexual offending (Trier, Germany) · 2025Article
- Modulation of the attentional response to baby schema by testosterone in pedohebephilic men and its relation to the nurturing system.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Need for a Prevention Program for Child Sexual Abuse in Brazil: A Report of Shortfall Care to Pedophilia and its Critical Consequences.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- A profile of French clergymen who sexually assaulted victims and a review.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2024Review
- Pedohebephilia and Perceived Non-coercive Childhood Sexual Experiences: Two Non-matched Case-Control Studies.Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment · 2023Article
- Altered Neural and Behavioral Response to Sexually Implicit Stimuli During a Pictorial-Modified Stroop Task in Pedophilic Disorder.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Article
- Acquired Pedophilia: international Delphi-method-based consensus guidelines.Translational psychiatry · 2023Review
- Patterns of risk-Using machine learning and structural neuroimaging to identify pedophilic offenders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Recent Advances in the Neuropsychology of Pedophilia.Sexual offending (Trier, Germany) · 2023Review
- Neural processing associated with cognitive empathy in pedophilia and child sexual offending.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Alterations in oxytocin and vasopressin in men with problematic pornography use: The role of empathy.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Primary Health Professionals' Beliefs, Experiences, and Willingness to Treat Minor-Attracted Persons.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Neurodevelopmental Differences, Pedohebephilia, and Sexual Offending: Findings from Two Online Surveys.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
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Abstract
A pedophilic disorder is recognized for its impairment to the individual and for the harm it may cause to others. Pedophilia is often considered a side issue and research into the nature of pedophilia is delayed in comparison to research into other psychiatric disorders. However, with the increasing use of neuroimaging techniques, such as functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI, fMRI), together with neuropsychological studies, we are increasing our knowledge of predisposing and accompanying factors contributing to pedophilia development. At the same time, we are faced with methodological challenges, such as group differences between studies, including age, intelligence, and comorbidities, together with a lack of careful assessment and control of child sexual abuse. Having this in mind, this review highlights the most important studies investigating pedophilia, with a strong emphasis on (neuro-) biological studies, combined with a brief explanation of research into normal human sexuality. We focus on some of the recent theories on the etiology of pedophilia such as the concept of a general neurodevelopmental disorder and/or alterations of structure and function in frontal, temporal, and limbic brain areas. With this approach, we aim to not only provide an update and overview but also a framework for future research and to address one of the most significant questions of how pedophilia may be explained by neurobiological and developmental alterations.
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