"J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:
> >Yes, this might help. Cognitive therapy is being tested to treat
> >antisocial personality disorder (usually in prisons; otherwise the
> >patients are rather uncooperative). I'm not sure how well it works,
> >the medline abstracts I looked at had rather mixed results.
>
> NEW YORK (AP) - A key part of the brain's circuitry for learning
> moral and social rules lies right behind the forehead, a study
> suggests. Antisocial behavior might depend at least in part on
> malfunctions in this circuitry, researchers said.
Which study was this? I know there has been some studies of prison inmates showing an unexpected large number of small lesions in the frontal lobes of violent criminals. And of course, Antonio Damasio makes a good case in _Descarte's Error_.
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