🧠 Brain Injuries and disorders

Question 1

Brain Injuries

Answer 1

Brian injury can change personality
and are more common in prisoners

Question 2

Brain injury and disorders - study

Answer 2

Phineas Gage- metal rod through the brain. Survived but personality changed.

Question 3

Brain disorders

Answer 3

Some brain diseases have been linked with criminal or anti-social behaviour.
Dementia, Encephalitis Lethargica’ brain tumours, Huntington’s chorea.

Question 4

Brain Injuries and disorders - EEG readings

Answer 4

Some studies show abnormal EEG readings in psychopathic criminals

Question 5

Brain injuries and disorders - strengths

Answer 5

• A few extreme cases do show brain injury leads to changes in behaviour including criminality.
• Some correlation between abnormal EEG readings and psychopathy
• Prisoners are more likely than non-prisoners to have a brain injury.

Question 6

Brain injuries and disorders - limitations

Answer 6

• Crimes caused by brain injury or disease are rare. Original personality more important.
• Abnormal EEG not necessarily the cause and not found in all psychopaths
• Prisoner’s higher likelihood of brain injury may be affect of criminality mot cause - e.g. getting into fights.