| Abstract: |
Neuroscience is beginning to tell that while the cognitive, planning part of brains of severely antisocial people works normally, other neural centres do not. Findings raise a series of thorny questions. It makes sense that brains of impulsive killers show abnormally low activity in the frontal cortex. It has been found that serial killers who commit a series of murders and evade capture, for a time at least do not have reduced frontal activity. According to James Blair, who works at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, the defect lies in the amygdala, a region of the temporal lobe intimately involved in the immediate, implicit processing of emotional cues. |
