Citation

Woodman DD, Hinton JW, O'Neill MT. Biol. Psychol. 1978; 6(2): 147-154.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

647090

Abstract

Investigations into the stress response of patients committed to a special hospital for criminally deviant offences have identified a group of sympathetically hypoactive patients who excrete more noradrenaline and less adrenaline in the urine than either the remaining hospital population or control subjects, during conditions of stresser anticipation. Further investigation of these patients has shown that similar differences in plasma catecholamines exist, and that the group of patients characterised by this imbalance tend to have been committed for the most physically violent crimes.

Language: en