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Strong limbic and weak frontal activation to aggressive stimuli in spouse abusers

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  1. Laboratory of Neuropsychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    T M C Lee & S C Chan

  2. Laboratory of Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    T M C Lee & S C Chan

  3. The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    T M C Lee

  4. Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA, USA

    A Raine

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Lee, T., Chan, S. & Raine, A. Strong limbic and weak frontal activation to aggressive stimuli in spouse abusers. Mol Psychiatry 13, 655–656 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2008.46

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