Raine et al (1997)Studying brain abnormalities in murders
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- Raine et al (1997)Studying brain abnormalities in murders
- Raine et al used a PET scan to look for differences in brain activity between 41 people (39 male and 2 female) who were charged with murder and pleading not guilty for reasons of sanity
- 6 cases of schizophrenia
- 23 cases of head injury
- 3 cases of drug abuse
- 2 affective disorders
- 2 epilepsy
- 3 Hyperactivity or learning difficulties
- 2 personality disorders
- Mean age of group was 34.3 years
- Controls matched on age & sex of 6 NGRIS
- 6 Matched with 6 other people with no murder history
- Offenders in custody kept medication free for 2 weeks before brain scanning. control group medication free
- Iv- murders and none murders
- DV- Brain abnormality s
- Results
- NGRIs found less activity in their perforontal and perietal areas and more activity in their occipital areas and no difference in their temporal areas
- Results from the subcortial areas found less activity in the corpus
- Had more activity is right sided than left
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