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Evoked Potentials and Antisocial Behavior

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Biological Contributions to Crime Causation

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The past 15 years has witnessed a substantial increase in our understanding of the neurophysiological substrate underlying many psychopathological states, a development which is largely explained by the parallel increase in the use of evoked potential (EP) recording techniques. Disappointingly, this trend has not led to a corresponding increase in the use of EPs with antisocial populations, and consequently the elucidation of a possible electrocortical basis to antisociality has rested largely with EEG studies and the use of more peripheral measures of CNS functioning. It is clear however that EP studies can provide the medium by which new theoretical developments may emerge to further our understanding of antisocial behavior. A closer look at the advantages of the EP methodology over other psychophysiological techniques may help put this optimistic statement into perspective.

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Raine, A. (1998). Evoked Potentials and Antisocial Behavior. In: Moffitt, T.E., Mednick, S.A. (eds) Biological Contributions to Crime Causation. NATO ASI Series, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2768-1_2

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