Individual- and Population-Level Impacts of Traumatic Brain Injury and Maternal Characteristics on Subsequent Offending Behavior

Wand, Handan; Simpson, Melanie; Malacova, Eva; Schofield, Peter R.; Preen, David B.; Tate, Robyn; Butler, Tony

doi:10.1097/htr.0000000000000326

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“…In a whole-population retrospective cohort study, there was a modest association between TBI and criminality after comprehensive adjustment for confounding variables (Schofield et al, 2015). And, in a population cohort of 30,599 individuals, a history of TBI was associated with increased risk for criminal convictions, but more than half of the convictions were associated with poor mental health, low socioeconomic status, and/or several maternal characteristics (Wand et al, 2018).…”

Section: Brain Diseases With Potential Moral Violationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Implications of Moral Neuroscience for Brain Disease: Review and Update

Mendez

2023

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

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The last 2 decades have seen an explosion of neuroscience research on morality, with significant implications for brain disease. Many studies have proposed a neuromorality based on intuitive sentiments or emotions aimed at maintaining collaborative social groups. These moral emotions are normative, deontological, and action based, with a rapid evaluation of intentionality. The neuromoral circuitry interacts with the basic mechanisms of socioemotional cognition, including social perception, behavioral control, theory of mind, and social emotions such as empathy. Moral transgressions may result from primary disorders of moral intuitions, or they may be secondary moral impairments from disturbances in these other socioemotional cognitive mechanisms. The proposed neuromoral system for moral intuitions has its major hub in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and engages other frontal regions as well as the anterior insulae, anterior temporal lobe structures, and right temporoparietal junction and adjacent posterior superior temporal sulcus. Brain diseases that affect these regions, such as behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, may result in primary disturbances of moral behavior, including criminal behavior. Individuals with focal brain tumors and other lesions in the right temporal and medial frontal regions have committed moral violations. These transgressions can have social and legal consequences for the individuals and require increased awareness of neuromoral disturbances among such individuals with brain diseases.

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Section: Brain Diseases With Potential Moral Violationsmentioning

confidence: 99%