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| Title |
Decoding Pedophilia: Increased Anterior Insula Response to Infant Animal Pictures
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00645 |
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| Authors |
Jorge Ponseti, Daniel Bruhn, Julia Nolting, Hannah Gerwinn, Alexander Pohl, Aglaja Stirn, Oliver Granert, Helmut Laufs, Günther Deuschl, Stephan Wolff, Olav Jansen, Hartwig Siebner, Peer Briken, Sebastian Mohnke, Till Amelung, Jonas Kneer, Boris Schiffer, Henrik Walter, Tillmann H. C. Kruger |
| 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. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 71 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 8% |
| Japan | 5 | 7% |
| Spain | 3 | 4% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Mexico | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Andorra | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 36 | 51% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 59 | 83% |
| Scientists | 9 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 100 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 100 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 16% |
| Researcher | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 14 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 31 | 31% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 37 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 101. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2023.
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