BANKSTERS MUST BE PET SCANNED TO REMAIN AT EXECUTIVE LEVEL! = IF FRONTAL LOBES ARE DULE THEY MUST GO!
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The brain of a psychopathic killer = Seen on PET brain scans = “the neural circuitry and genetics of creativity, artistic talent, psychopathology, criminal behavior, and levels of consciousness.” = Neuroscientist who can predict murderers. = No single gene makes someone violent or psychopathic. = Sluggishness in Frontal lobe = Warrior Gene (MAOA-L discovered in late 1980‘s) linked to violence + genes associated with antisocial behavior, low anxiety, and low empathy. = Easily lose their tempers + aggressive = assault, arson, rape, and murder.
Genetic variation for development of psychopathy limiting metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin. = Scans can SPOT major depression + schizophrenia + pattern in psychopaths = showed inactivity in the prefrontal orbital cortex = Identified 30 murderers perfectly.
One subgroup had amygdaloid and cingulate cortex type of activity = psychopaths.
PET SCANS spotted those with prefrontal cortex differences without amygdala and cingulate involvement = Impulsive or reactive murderers = killed in a hot-blooded emotional manner as opposed to the cold-blooded manner characteristic of criminal psychopaths.
Murderers = Darkness in prefrontal cortices = impaired metabolism = lack of neuronal activity = reduced glucose metabolism in their frontal lobes
PET scans spot those in certifiable psychopathic range = Few murderers are high-scoring psychopaths. = Kill from stress or isolation or anger or jealousy or criminal lifestyles reasons. 50% of Americans are killed by someone they knew and 25% were family members. 43% during arguments and 23% were crime victims.
75% of criminals have antisocial personality disorder – including sociopaths but only 20% of criminals are true psychopaths. Scans of the murderers are often identical to those of certified psychopaths.
Biological psychiatry can pinpoint the brain of a murderer by examining the prefrontal cortex. = Your frontal lobes = Your Forehead from eyes up and extend halfway back across the top of your brain. = Controls some of the most sophisticated higher brain functions = planning your future + weighing risks + worrying what might go wrong + getting along with others + controlling your sex drive = using your frontal lobes = Makes use different from chimpanzees = We express much more complex pattern of gene expression (proteins) in our frontal lobes compared to apes = human frontal lobes are more complex than chimpanzee frontal lobes in signaling pathways and neuron connections more elaborate than those of the great apes. = process information more efficiently and at a more sophisticated level.
Frontal Lobe = Thinking and planning + Antisocial, criminal, and psychopathic behavior
Orbitofrontal cortex and adjacent ventromedial prefrontal cortex = Biological basis of psychopathy and antisocial behavior = A sense of ethics, morality, and social cooperation + put a brake on impulses and drives. Dysfunction = Impulsiveness and aggression closely linked to psychopathy and antisocial behavior
“It’s the part of the brain that allows us to say, ‘Don’t do that! Don’t say that! It’s not appropriate! There are going to be consequences!’” — Dr. Jonathan Pincus, Georgetown University psychiatrist
PET scan = Healthy orbitofrontal cortex glows with bright patches of red and yellow to indicate brain cells actively sucking up and burning glucose for energy as they keep nerve impulses flowing and neurons communicating with each other.
PET scan = DULL GREY orbitofrontal cortex = Desirable glow is missing in the brains of those with psychopathic traits = recklessness + get into fights + victimize others.
PET scan = DULL GREY orbitofrontal cortex = Intellectual ability is commonly unaffected. = We get some very High intellect criminals = Like Wall Street. = “There was no pain; it was a clean wound”
High intellect and verbal intelligence can be in parallel with psychopathic or criminal tendencies. = Intelligence and writing skills are incompatible with criminal or psychopathic behaviors. = A man or woman may be able to write like a sage and still be a remorseless killer.
Psychopathy = “Superficial charm and good ‘intelligence’” — Hervey Cleckley placed at the top of his list of psychopathic traits. = But less-intelligent psychopaths get caught and sent to prison while more-intelligent psychopaths tend to move into corporate or political occupations, or else manage not to get caught. = psychopaths range widely in intelligence.
Structural MRIs saw less gray-matter volume in the orbitofrontal cortex of people with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathy scores around 28 out of 40.
Brain = A highly complex structure consisting of billions of interconnected units. = A lesion anywhere in the brain can contributing to troubling behavior by interrupting communication pathways in the prefrontal cortex.
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