Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
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Jutta M Birkhoff

Department of Legal Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, Director of Residency Education for the Forensic, Department of Biotechnologies and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, Italy

Biography

Jutta M Birkhoff  works at Department of Legal Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, Director of Residency Education for the Section of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Department of Bio-Technologies and Life Sciences, Director of the Forensic Psychiatric Unit, University of Insubria, Varese-Como, Via O. Rossi 9, 21100, Varese, Italy, also a well known researcher, one of his famous works are  47, XYY Karyotype and Borderline Personality Disorder: An Italian Judicial Case and a Review of the Literature

Publications

47, XYY Karyotype and Borderline Personality Disorder: An Italian Judicial Case and a Review of the Literature

During the 1960s and the 1970s, some studies postulated that Jacobs' Syndrome can lead to aggressive and/or criminal behavior, but the statistical certainty was questioned. In the 1990s new discoveries in neuroscience and genetics brought new attention to a possible biological component of deviance. In this context forensic psychiatrists were requi... Read More»

Jutta M Birkhoff, Laura Re and Davide Torri

Commentary: J Child Adolesc Behav 2015, 3: 220

DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494.1000220

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