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Pedophilic sex offenders are characterised by reduced GABA concentration in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

Inka Ristow, Meng Li, Lejla Colic, Vanessa Marr, Carina Födisch, Felicia von Düring, Kolja Schiltz, Krasimira Drumkova, Joachim Witzel, Henrik Walter, Klaus Beier, Tillmann H.C. Kruger, Jorge Ponseti, Boris Schiffer, Martin Walter

PII: S2213-1582(18)30018-4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.01.018 Reference: YNICL 1270 To appear in: NeuroImage: Clinical Received date: 2 October 2017 Revised date: 14 December 2017 Accepted date: 15 January 2018

Please cite this article as: Inka Ristow, Meng Li, Lejla Colic, Vanessa Marr, Carina Födisch, Felicia von Düring, Kolja Schiltz, Krasimira Drumkova, Joachim Witzel, Henrik Walter, Klaus Beier, Tillmann H.C. Kruger, Jorge Ponseti, Boris Schiffer, Martin Walter , Pedophilic sex offenders are characterised by reduced GABA concentration in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. The address for the corresponding author was captured as affiliation for all authors. Please check if appropriate. Ynicl(2017), https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.01.018

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Title: Pedophilic sex offenders are characterised by reduced GABA concentration in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

Running title: Anterior cingulate GABA deficit in pedophilic sex offenders

Order of authors: Inka Ristow1,2, MD; Meng Li1,3, PhD; Lejla Colic1,2, MSc; Vanessa Marr1,2, MD, Carina Födisch1,2, MD, MSc; Felicia von Düring1,2, MD; Kolja Schiltz4, MD; Krasimira Drumkova5, MD; Joachim Witzel5, MD; Henrik Walter6, MD, PhD; Klaus Beier7, MD, PhD; Tillmann HC Kruger8, MD, PhD; Jorge Ponseti9, PhD; Boris Schiffer10,11, PhD; Martin Walter1-3,12-15*, MD, PhD

Affiliations: 1 Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (CANLAB), Magdeburg, 2 Leibniz Insitute for Neurobiology, Department for Behavioral Neurology, Magdeburg, Germany 3 Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 4 Section of Forensic Psychiatry, Deptartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig Maximilian University, Nussbaumstrasse 7, 80336 Munich, Germany 5 Forensic Psychiatric State Hospital of Saxony-Anhalt, Schnöggersburger Weg 1, 39576, -Uchtspringe, Germany 6 Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Clinic Berlin, Germany 7 Institute for Sexual Medicine and Sexual Science, Charité University Clinic Berlin, Germany 8 Clinic for Psychiatry, Sociopsychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Academy Hannover, Germany 9 Institute for Sexualmedicine and Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Christian- Albrechts University Kiel, German 10 University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Virchowstr. 174, 45147 Essen, Germany 11 LWL-University Hospital, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Alexandrinenstraße 1-3, 44791 Bochum, Germany 12 Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany 13Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 14 Department of Psychiatry, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany 15 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, Germany * Corresponding author ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Address for correspondence: Prof. Dr. med. Martin Walter, MD, PhD Head Section for Translational Psychiatry Dept. of Psychiatry University of Tuebingen Osianderstr. 24 72076 Tuebingen Germany E-mail: [email protected] Phone +497071 29 86119 Fax +497071 29 5901