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The Impulsive Psychopath: A Clinical and Electro-Physiological Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. Sessions Hodge*
Affiliation:
E.M.S., and Somerset County Council; Burden Neurological Institute

Extract

This paper should be considered a preliminary communication, tentative and suggestive. It is based on a psychiatric and electro-physiological study of 70 cases (children, adolescents and adults) referred for anti-social and/or criminal behaviour, and is an attempt to suggest more defined criteria for the assessment of a particular syndrome.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1945 

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