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What matters and what is possible in neuroimaging meta-analyses (of psychopathy)

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Timm B. Poeppl & Danilo Bzdok

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Timm B. Poeppl

  3. Department of Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen (University of Hagen), Hagen, Germany

    Andreas Mokros

  4. JARA Brain, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany

    Danilo Bzdok

  5. Parietal team, INRIA, Neurospin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Danilo Bzdok

  6. Research Centre Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Jülich, Germany

    Simon B. Eickhoff

  7. Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Simon B. Eickhoff

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Poeppl, T.B., Mokros, A., Bzdok, D. et al. What matters and what is possible in neuroimaging meta-analyses (of psychopathy). Mol Psychiatry 25, 3125–3126 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0515-0

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