Background In Japan, the legislation directing treatment of offenders with psychiatric
disorders was enacted in 2005. Neuropsychological impairment is highly related to …

Few studies have compared performance on neurocognitive measures between violent and
nonviolent schizophrenia samples. A better understanding of neurocognitive dysfunction in …

Neuropsychological assessments are often used to document the nature and extent of
cognitive problems in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (Johnson-Greene & …

Background There is a broad literature suggesting that cognitive difficulties are associated
with violence across a variety of groups. Although neurocognitive and social cognitive …

Background The relationship between violence and neurocognitive function in
schizophrenia is unclear. We examined the backgrounds and neurocognitive functions of …

Objective The main aim was to investigate whether forensic psychiatric inpatients can be
distinguished from prisoners and non-offender healthy controls based on their performance …

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate if Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is
related to decision-making deficits as well as to heightened levels of (reactive) aggression …

Measures of psychopathy have been proved to be valuable for risk assessment in violent
criminals. However, the neuronal basis of psychopathy and its contribution to the prediction …

Background The excess risk of violence in psychotic disorders may partly be explained by
impairments in executive functions (EFs) and theory of mind (ToM). However, previous …

Introduction and aims. Mental disorders among perpetrators of violent and sexual crimes
differ from those in the general population in prevalence, course, and patterns of …