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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-injury-specific-brain-people-criminal.html
Over the past decades, some lawyers have started using
brain imaging scans as evidence during criminal trials,
to provide a possible explanation for the criminal behavior
of defendants. This was justified by recent neuroscientific
studies, which found that some people who commit crimes
present differences in specific parts of the brain. Yet
a key question remains: are these brain changes causal,
compensatory or incidental to the behavior?
To answer this question, researchers at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical School and other institutes in
the U.S. analyzed the locations of brain injury temporally
associated with a new onset of criminality.
They found evidence suggesting that lesions to a specific
white matter tract could be causally implicated in the
behavior of individuals who start committing crimes
after injury.
Their findings, published in Molecular Psychiatry, could
help inform future juridical and medical practices, helping
lawyers, judges and neurologists to identify individuals
who might have been prompted to commit crimes as a result
of injuries, strokes or other diseases.
. . .
MORE excuses ...
Unless they could PROVE the damage was *especially*
SEVERE I'd STILL convict. If it IS especially severe
then it's the psycho-prison FOREVER because they're
not gonna get better.
What's next, bumps on the head ??? Hey, palm
reading eh ?
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