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Jackpine Radical

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2. Now we need a study relating the cortical differences

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 11:34 AM

Oct 2012

to differences in measured abilities, particularly executive functions.

Most street criminals, in my experience as a Corrections psychologist, have impaired cortical executive functions (functions needed to appropriately initiate, sustain, inhibit or switch activities) and come from massively pathological childhood situations.

How much cortical impairment does it take to constitute a Diminished Capacity or "Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Disease or Defect" defense?

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Childhood stimulation key to brain development, study finds [View all] xchrom Oct 2012 OP

I don't think you need a brain scan to know this. bemildred Oct 2012 #1

Now we need a study relating the cortical differences Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #2

Yep, "no self-control", in other words. bemildred Oct 2012 #3

It may also result from frontal & prefrontal cortical problems. Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #4

Quite true. bemildred Oct 2012 #5

That's a dangerous path to go down - hedgehog Oct 2012 #7

You would rather put a psychotic person in prison for life? Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #8

Given that we are currently using prisons to house a large number of the mentally ill, hedgehog Oct 2012 #9

This headline could have been written 30 years ago - and in fact it was! Chemisse Oct 2012 #6

More than 50 years ago. Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #10