TBI

Question 1

What causes TBI?

Answer 1

• accident or illness
• prolonged drug and alcohol use

Question 2

What do consequences of TBI depend on?

Answer 2

area of the brain that is damaged - may change personality or behaviour

Question 3

Consequence of damage to PFC?

Answer 3

aggression - assault crimes

Question 5

Consequence of TBI at a young age?

Answer 5

• inability to learn appropriate social behaviour
• inability to learn inappropriate sexual behaviours

Question 6

Strengths

Answer 6

• Raine - lower glucose metabolism in right pre frontal cortex - may indicate TBI - lack of normal functioning has caused aggression in NGRI’s
• Phineus Gage - became more impulsive and aggressive after a pole went through his pre frontal cortex
• counter - cannot be generalised to everyone as this was one case

Question 7

Weaknesses

Answer 7

• Kreutzer - 20% of 74 patients were arrested before TBI and 10% after TBI - unable to make a link between TBI and crime
• reductionist - doesn’t consider social influences of crime