Neuropsychiatric vulnerabilities and violent juvenile delinquency.
The author outlines some of the neurologic and psychiatric disorders prevalent in violent delinquent populations such as attention problems, psychomotor seizures, episodic psychoses, and others. The article serves to alert the clinician to the existence of potentially treatable neuropsychopathology and to give an awareness of the psychobiologic vulnerabilities of most violent delinquents.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D014754:Violence