Woodman D D, Hinton J W, O'Neill M T
Biol Psychol. 1978 Mar;6(2):147-54. doi: 10.1016/0301-0511(78)90054-6.
Investigations into the stress response of patients committed to a special hospital for criminally deviant offences have identified a group of sympathetically hypoactive patients who excrete more noradrenaline and less adrenaline in the urine than either the remaining hospital population or control subjects, during conditions of stresser anticipation. Further investigation of these patients has shown that similar differences in plasma catecholamines exist, and that the group of patients characterised by this imbalance tend to have been committed for the most physically violent crimes.
对被关押在专门收治犯罪行为异常患者医院的病人应激反应的调查发现，有一组交感神经活动减退的病人，在预期应激情况下，他们尿液中去甲肾上腺素的排泄量比医院其他病人或对照对象都多，而肾上腺素的排泄量则较少。对这些病人的进一步调查表明，血浆儿茶酚胺也存在类似差异，而且以这种失衡为特征的那组病人往往是因最暴力的身体犯罪而被关押的。
