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  • Koenigs primarily studies brain injuries, particularly those in the VMPFC, where the brain is believed to regulate emotion, process threats, guide decision-making and direct social behavior. Damage to this segment, located just behind the forehead in the frontal lobes, tends to make patients more aggressive, irritable and less sensitive to others.
  • scientists don't know if the VMPFC is failing to regulate the amygdala or if the amygdala is failing to send crucial emotional feedback to the VMPFC.
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Raine’s talk was part of a panel titled “Nature, Nurture, and Antisocial Behavior: Biological and Biosocial Research on Crime.” His research indicates that psychopaths who are criminal offenders lacking fear, remorse and guilt may show neurological evidence of their differences early in life.

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  • they found that poor fear conditioning in 3-year-olds increased their odds of becoming a criminal offender by the age of 23.
  • Adults with cavum septum pellucidum—a neurological condition that reflects underdevelopment of the emotion limbic system before the first six months of life—have higher rates of psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, arrests and convictions.
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Sep
6
2011

For a brief time in the 1960s and 1970s, it was believed that criminal behavior could be predicted by a genetic abnormality.

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XYY genetics crime determinism 110

  • For a brief time in the 1960s and 1970s, it was believed that criminal behavior could be predicted by a genetic abnormality.
  • For about a decade, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, experts thought they had found a genetic "smoking gun" that explained criminal behavior in males.
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3
2008

"A study finds that even low levels can permanently damage the brain. The research also shows that exposure is a continuing problem despite efforts to minimize it." (Los Angeles Times)

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