Are criminal behavior related to changes in the brain? Can changes in the brain really turn law -abiding citizens into criminals? Well, an innovative study found that damage to a particular brain region can contribute to a crime or cruel behavior. A new study led by researchers from a medical campus in Colorado Anschut, Brig and Women’s Hospital, as well as Harvard Medical School revealed light on the nerve roots of violence and moral decisions. The study is published in molecular psychiatry. Disturbance in the path of the brain
To understand the link between brain injury and criminal behavior, the researchers considered the brain scan of people who have begun crimes after injuries to brain injuries, tumors, or traumatic trauma. They compared it with 17 cases with a brain scan with 706 individuals with other neurological symptoms such as memory loss or depression. What they found was strange. Researchers have found that trauma of a particular brain route on the right, called insincere fascists, was often found in people with criminal behavior. This sample was also noticed by the people who committed violent crimes.“This part of the brain, the uncince fasciculus, is a White matching that serves as a cable connecting regions that govern emotion and decision. When that connection is disregted Emotions and Maque Moral Choices May Be Sevely Impaired, ”Christopher M. Filley, MD, Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and One of the Study’s Co-Autors. “Although it is widely accepted that brain injury can lead to memory or motor function, the role of the brain in the management of social behavior, as crime, is more contradictory. It raises difficult questions about guilty and free will, “said Isaiah Kletothennik, MD, associate professor of the Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School and the lead author of the study. What do experts say
Kletenik noted that, while working in the field of behavioral neurology at the Colorado University medical school, he had the opportunity to evaluate patients who began to commit violence with the onset of brain tumors or degenerative diseases.“These clinical cases caused my curiosity to the brain of moral solutions and made me learn new network methods of neurovisualization at the center of the brain therapy in the brigade, women’s hospital and Harvard medical school,” said the Kletothenik. To further confirm the conclusions, the researchers conducted a complete analysis of the connection using a detailed map of how the brain regions are. The analysis showed that the correct unhappy phosyan was the nervous way with the most consistent connection with criminal behavior.“It was not just brain damage; it was damage to this path. Our conclusion suggests that this particular connection could play a unique role in regulating behavior,” Fili said.
A specific path connects brain regions associated with making decisions based on rewarding with those processing emotions. However, if this connection is damaged, especially on the right, it can lead to difficulties in the fight against impulses, anticipation of consequences or empathy, which can contribute to harmful or criminal actions.Not everyone with injury becomes tough
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Researchers also found that not everyone with this type of brain injury becomes tough. However, damage to this tract can play a role in a new onset of criminal behavior after the injury. “This work may have consequences in the real world for both medicine and law. Doctors can better identify patients at risk and offer effective early interventions. And the courts may need to take into account brain damage when criminal assessment,” Fili added.Kletenik also noted that the findings of this study could raise important ethical issues. “Is it worth the brain injury factor in the way we judge criminal behavior? Caution in science is not determined in the same way as the guilt in the eyes of the law. However, our conclusions give useful data that can help report this discussion and contribute to our growing knowledge of how social behavior is indirectly,”
