Publications by authors named "Andrea S Camperio Ciani"
Background: Social factors and a lack of clearself-awareness may prevent women from explicitly reporting their non-heterosexuality, and implicit measures could provide more reliable data.
Aim: This study examined non-heterosexuality and gynephilia in a large, global sample of women using implicit and explicit methods.
Methods: A sample of 491 women participated in this cross-sectional study.
Idiopathic and acquired pedophilia are two different disorders with two different etiologies. However, the differential diagnosis is still very difficult, as the behavioral indicators used to discriminate the two forms of pedophilia are underexplored, and clinicians are still devoid of clear guidelines describing the clinical and neuroscientific investigations suggested to help them with this difficult task. Furthermore, the consequences of misdiagnosis are not known, and a consensus regarding the legal consequences for the two kinds of offenders is still lacking.
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- Pedophilia is a complex disorder linked to child sexual offenses, with research showing mixed results on brain abnormalities connected to this behavior.
- This study conducted a meta-analysis of previous research to examine the neural aspects of pedophilia, revealing that acquired forms of the disorder are associated with specific brain regions important for self-control and social understanding.
- The findings indicate that idiopathic (original causes) and acquired pedophilia may represent distinct conditions, which could help in developing better treatment approaches for affected individuals.
Neurological disorders can be mis-diagnosed as psychiatric ones. This might happen to pedophilia emerging as a symptom of brain insult (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere we respond to Vasey et al.'s critical comments regarding our article, "Societal norms rather than sexual orientation influence kin altruism and avuncularity in tribal Urak-Lawoi, Italian, and Spanish adult males" (Camperio Ciani, Battaglia, & Liotta, 2015 , JSR doi:10.1080/00224499.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This research aimed to identify incidents of mothers in Italy killing their own children and to test an adaptive evolutionary hypothesis to explain their occurrence.
Methods: 110 cases of mothers killing 123 of their own offspring from 1976 to 2010 were analyzed. Each case was classified using 13 dichotomic variables.
Introduction: Recent evidence suggests that sexually antagonistic genetic factors in the maternal line promote homosexuality in men and fecundity in female relatives. However, it is not clear if and how these genetic factors are phenotypically expressed to simultaneously induce homosexuality in men and increased fecundity in their mothers and maternal aunts.
Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate the phenotypic expression of genetic factors that could explain increased fecundity in the putative female carriers.