Abnormality of Catecholamine Balance Relating to Social Deviance
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 45 (2) , 593-594
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1977.45.2.593
Abstract
Approximately a quarter of maximum security hospital patients convicted of highly deviant crimes exhibited low ‘anxiety-type’ psychophysiological responsivity to stressors together with an abnormal catecholamine balance during stressor anticipation which resulted in noradrenalin to adrenalin ratios in excess of 5.5, an abnormally high value not exceeded by any control subjects and a result which is statistically significant ( p < 0.005).This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Catecholamine Output during Relaxation and AnticipationPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1970