Abnormal brain structure in youth who commit homicide
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Highlights
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Homicide offenders had reduced gray matter volumes in medial/lateral temporal lobes.
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Specific areas of reduction included the hippocampus and posterior insula.
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Support vector machine learning classified offenders with 81% overall accuracy.
Keywords
Voxel-based morphometry (VBM)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Incarcerated adolescents
Pattern classifier
Support vector machine (SVM)
Gray matter volume
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Present address: LMC is now with the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Research Center at the University of Michigan.
Copyright © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.