ArticleHuman brain mapping2017
Evidence for superior neurobiological and behavioral inhibitory control abilities in non-offending as compared to offending pedophiles.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Using physiological biomarkers in forensic psychiatry: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- 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
- 'I have no desire to hurt a child': prosocial navigation of sexual attraction to children.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
- The Relevance of Hypersexuality and Impulsivity in Different Groups of Treatment-Seekers With and Without (Exclusive) Pedophilia.Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment · 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
- Dark Tetrad personality traits, paraphilic interests, and the role of impulsivity: an EEG-study using a Go/No-Go paradigm.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neuropsychological Functioning in Sexual Offenders With and Without Pedophilic Disorder.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Altered Neural and Behavioral Response to Sexually Implicit Stimuli During a Pictorial-Modified Stroop Task in Pedophilic Disorder.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Article
- The Role of Atypical Sexual Preference and Behavior in Neuroelectrophysiological Research of Human Sexual Behavior.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Neural processing associated with cognitive empathy in pedophilia and child sexual offending.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Hypersexuality and Impulsivity in Self-Referred Men With Sexual Interest in Minors: Are They Related? Do They Change During Treatment? An Exploratory Pilot Study.Sexual medicine · 2021Article
- The Relationship Between and Correlates of Problematic Sexual Behavior and Major Mental Illness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Neuroanatomical Differences Among Sexual Offenders: A Targeted Review with Limitations and Implications for Future Directions.Violence and gender · 2020Review
- Two Sides of One Coin: A Comparison of Clinical and Neurobiological Characteristics of Convicted and Non-Convicted Pedophilic Child Sexual Offenders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Child sexual offenders show prenatal and epigenetic alterations of the androgen system.Translational psychiatry · 2019Article
- Are There Any Biomarkers for Pedophilia and Sexual Child Abuse? A Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
- Expectation of sexual images of adults and children elicits differential dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activation in pedophilic sexual offenders and healthy controls.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
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Abstract
Neurobehavioral models of pedophilia and child sexual offending suggest a pattern of temporal and in particular prefrontal disturbances leading to inappropriate behavioral control and subsequently an increased propensity to sexually offend against children. However, clear empirical evidence for such mechanisms is still missing. Using a go/nogo paradigm in combination with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we compared behavioral performance and neural response patterns among three groups of men matched for age and IQ: pedophiles with (N = 40) and without (N = 37) a history of hands-on sexual offences against children as well as healthy non-offending controls (N = 40). As compared to offending pedophiles, non-offending pedophiles exhibited superior inhibitory control as reflected by significantly lower rate of commission errors. Group-by-condition interaction analysis also revealed inhibition-related activation in the left posterior cingulate and the left superior frontal cortex that distinguished between offending and non-offending pedophiles, while no significant differences were found between pedophiles and healthy controls. Both areas showing distinct activation pattern among pedophiles play a critical role in linking neural networks that relate to effective cognitive functioning. Data therefore suggest that heightened inhibition-related recruitment of these areas as well as decreased amount of commission errors is related to better inhibitory control in pedophiles who successfully avoid committing hands-on sexual offences against children. Hum Brain Mapp 38:1092-1104, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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