"Punishment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting undesirable behavior.
| Descriptor ID |
D011678
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.425.770.571 I01.880.630.716
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Punishment" by people in Profiles.
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Missed opportunities to support parents' use of healthy discipline. Child Abuse Negl. 2025 Mar; 161:107257.
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Corporal punishment of children in Australia: The evidence-based case for legislative reform. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2023 Jun; 47(3):100044.
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Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments. PLoS One. 2019; 14(1):e0210584.
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Interaction Between Parenting Styles and Adrenarcheal Timing Associated With Affective Brain Function in Late Childhood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 09; 57(9):678-686.e4.
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Psychosocial intervention in at-risk adolescents: using event-related potentials to assess changes in decision making and feedback processing. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2019 Feb; 28(2):223-236.
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Is the Use of Physical Discipline Associated with Aggressive Behaviors in Young Children? Acad Pediatr. 2017 Jan - Feb; 17(1):34-44.
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Reward-Related Neural Activity and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior in a Community Sample. Dev Neuropsychol. 2015; 40(6):363-78.
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An exploration of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury and religious coping. Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2014; 26(3):345-9.
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When should psychiatrists seek criminal prosecution of assaultive psychiatric inpatients? Psychiatr Serv. 2009 Aug; 60(8):1113-7.
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Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology. Eat Behav. 2008 Apr; 9(2):210-7.