Functional neuroimaging of sexual arousal: A preliminary meta-analysis comparing pedophilic to non-pedophilic men

摘要

Because men with pedophilia present, on average, lower IQ and neuropsychological performance than non-pedophilic men (Cantor, Blanchard, Robichaud, & Christensen, 2005; Joyal, Black, & Dassylva, 2007) as well as structural anomalies of cerebral grey matter regions (Schiffer et al., 2007; Schiltz et al., 2007) or white matter tracts (Cantor et al., 2008; Cantor & Blanchard, 2012), a growing number of functional brain imaging studies have attempted to identify distinct patterns of brain activation associated with sexual arousal in pedophiles (e.g., Poeppl et al., 2011; Ponseti et al., 2012).