Joao Pedro Lourenco
North Lisbon Hospital Center, Portugal
Biography
João Pedro Lourenço has completed his Master´s degree in Medicine at the age of 23 years old (2012) from Lisbon University – Medical College. He is in his final year (5Th year) of Psychiatry residency, after which he will become a Psychiatry consultant. During his residency, he made an internship in Forensic Psychiatry settings (Forensic Psychiatry Service of the Psychiatric Hospital Center of Lisbon). He has completed a post-graduate course (70 hours) on Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology promoted by the Institute of Legal Medicine of Portugal.
Fernando Vieira is an Assistant senior graduate of Psychiatry in the Forensic Psychiatry Service of the Lisbon Psychiatric Hospital Center. He is a member of the Installing Commission of the Forensic Psychiatry Sub-specialty College of the Order of Physicians of Portugal and the National Commission for Follow-up on the Mental Health Law, which he presided from 2006 to 2008.
Abstract
Abstract : Nature vs nurture on criminology – A review of genetic contribution to violent behavior