Raine, Fuchsbaum and LaCasse
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- Evidence - Raine, Buchsbaum and LaCasse
- Methodology
- participants
- 41 murders
- all pleaded guilty, either insanity/incompetence
- sent to uni of california
- were all drug free - urine test
- control group
- matched up with murderer
- six schizophrenics murdered, matched with six schizophrenic non-murderd
- on of control group were murders
- also had some with no like to psychotic illness
- matched up with murderer
- procedures
- used a pet scan
- were all given a tracer (FDG) to see active parts of the brain
- all asked to do, continuous performance task CTP
- to activate certain parts of brain
- used a pet scan
- participants
- Findings
- Brain differences
- reduced activity in the brain
- in some areas previously linked to violence
- abnormal asymmetries
- reduced activity on left side of brain.
- some have linked this with violence
- reduced activity on left side of brain.
- no differences
- mental illness but no violence
- reduced activity in the brain
- performance on ctp
- there were similar
- no effect
- other findings
- handedness
- six of murders were lifted handed, higher medical prefrontal activity
- ethnicity- between coloured and white people there were no differences
- head injury - 23 had head injury but didn't differ of ones with
- handedness
- Brain differences
- conclusion
- L for left = less active
- R for right more reactive
- reduced activity - in some areas, notably the ares linked with violence
- not as much differences
- Methodology
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