Widespread and interrelated gray matter reductions in child sexual offenders with and without pedophilia: Evidence from a multivariate structural MRI study.
MRI
brain
child abuse
forensic psychiatry
pedophilia
sexual
Journal
Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
ISSN: 1440-1819
Titre abrégé: Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 9513551
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
revised:
30
06
2021
received:
23
01
2021
accepted:
19
07
2021
pubmed:
5
8
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
4
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To further investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of child sexual offending and disentangle them from the neural correlates of pedophilia, using a multivariate analytical approach in order to minimize loss of statistical power. This study presents structural MRI data on gray matter in an incarcerated, male population of 22 pedophilic and 21 non-pedophilic child sexual offenders, and 20 violent non-sexual offender controls, based on a multivariate whole-brain approach using source-based morphometry. We identify a network of several neuroanatomical regions exhibiting interrelated reduced gray matter in both child sexual offender groups relative to controls, comprising extensive clusters in the bilateral cerebellum and frontal lobe, as well as smaller clusters in the bilateral parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes, the bilateral basal ganglia, the medial cingulate and the hippocampus. Our results speak to the interpretation that there are inter- and possibly connectivity-related brain structural abnormalities in child sexual offenders that are not (only) pertaining to pedophilia per se. Interpretations and limitations of the present data are discussed and recommendations for future works are given.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
331-340Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
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