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Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as an intervention to improve empathic abilities and reduce violent behavior in forensic offenders: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Recent studies show that changes in one of the brain areas related to empathic abilities (i.e. the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)) plays an important role in violent behavior in abusers of alcohol and cocaine. According to the models of James Blair, empathy is a potential inhibit...

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Autores principales: Sergiou, Carmen S., Woods, Adam J., Franken, Ingmar H. A., van Dongen, Josanne D. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32169111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-4074-0