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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2017

Decoding Pedophilia: Increased Anterior Insula Response to Infant Animal Pictures.

Jorge Ponseti, Daniel Bruhn, Julia Nolting, Hannah Gerwinn, Alexander Pohl, Aglaja Stirn, Oliver Granert, Helmut Laufs, Günther Deuschl, Stephan Wolff and 9 more

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Jorge PonsetiInstitute of Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Daniel BruhnInstitute of Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Julia NoltingInstitute of Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Hannah GerwinnInstitute of Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Alexander PohlInstitute of Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Aglaja StirnInstitute of Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Oliver GranertDepartment of Neurology, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Helmut LaufsDepartment of Neurology, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Günther DeuschlDepartment of Neurology, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Stephan WolffDepartment of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Olav JansenDepartment of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Kiel University, Medical School, Kiel, Germany.
Hartwig SiebnerDanish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Peer BrikenInstitute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Sebastian MohnkeDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Till AmelungInstitute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Jonas KneerDepartment of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Sexual Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Boris SchifferDivision of Forensic Psychiatry, LWL-University Hospital Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Henrik WalterDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Tillmann H C KrugerDepartment of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Sexual Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Kiel University · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEBispebjerg Hospital · DKLWL-Universitätsklinikum Bochum · DEUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous research found increased brain responses of men with sexual interest in children (i.e., pedophiles) not only to pictures of naked children but also to pictures of child faces. This opens the possibly that pedophilia is linked (in addition to or instead of an aberrant sexual system) to an over-active nurturing system. To test this hypothesis we exposed pedophiles and healthy controls to pictures of infant and adult animals during functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. By using pictures of infant animals (instead of human infants), we aimed to elicit nurturing processing without triggering sexual processing. We hypothesized that elevated brain responses to nurturing stimuli will be found - in addition to other brain areas - in the anterior insula of pedophiles because this area was repeatedly found to be activated when adults see pictures of babies. Behavioral ratings confirmed that pictures of infant or adult animals were not perceived as sexually arousing neither by the pedophilic participants nor by the heathy controls. Statistical analysis was applied to the whole brain as well as to the anterior insula as region of interest. Only in pedophiles did infants relative to adult animals increase brain activity in the anterior insula, supplementary motor cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal areas. Within-group analysis revealed an increased brain response to infant animals in the left anterior insular cortex of the pedophilic participants. Currently, pedophilia is considered the consequence of disturbed sexual or executive brain processing, but details are far from known. The present findings raise the question whether there is also an over-responsive nurturing system in pedophilia.

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