Biological - Brain injuries and diseases

Question 1

Phineas Gage

Answer 1

Metal rod through brain and it changed his personality yet all other brain function was okay. example of how brain injuries can lead to crimnal behaviour

Question 2

Diseases link to criminality

Answer 2

1920s epidemic of encephalitis lethargica in children linked to impulsive behaviour. brain tumors also linked to deviance

Question 3

Raine et al 1994

Answer 3

PET scans to study living brains of impulsive killers. damage found in pre frontal cortex which cotnrols impulses usually