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Jackpine Radical

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4. It may also result from frontal & prefrontal cortical problems.

Reply to bemildred (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 01:17 PM

Oct 2012

However, for many, I think learning to "shut off" your frontal cortical functions is a learned skill.

For example, if you life is just too miserable for you to tolerate being present in it, you may learn to dissociate, etc. In fact, this produces a "learned" form of ADD (which is also a frontal deactivation problem).

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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