Risk of Violent Crime in Individuals with Epilepsy and Traumatic Brain Injury: A 35-Year Swedish Population Study

Seena Fazel; Paul Lichtenstein; Martin Grann; Niklas Långström

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001150

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Risk of Violent Crime in Individuals with Epilepsy and Traumatic Brain Injury: A 35-Year Swedish Population Study

Seena Fazel ,

* E-mail: seena.fazel@psych.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Paul Lichtenstein,

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Martin Grann,

Affiliations Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Norrköping, Sweden
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Niklas Långström

Affiliations Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Norrköping, Sweden
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Risk of Violent Crime in Individuals with Epilepsy and Traumatic Brain Injury: A 35-Year Swedish Population Study

Seena Fazel,
Paul Lichtenstein,
Martin Grann,
Niklas Långström

Published: December 27, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001150

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