CJ ST 484 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Nicolae Dobrin, Sensation Seeking
26 Dec 2017
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In 1996, neuroscientists published a case study of a 65-year old man with no criminal history and no previous use of violence who strangled his wife after she scratched his face during an argument (relkin, plum, mattis, He was unaware of his rationale or motivation for abruptly murdering his wife. A magnetic resonance image (mri) indicated that he had a large cyst in the left frontal region of is brain that had displaced his left middle cerebral artery. Subsequent testing indicated reduced eeg amplitude in the left fronto-temporal region and a positron emission tomography (pet) scan indicated significantly reduced glucose metabolism in the affected left frontal region. They concluded that these neurological problems contributed to his sudden, impulsive, spur-of-the-moment decision to commit murder, a behavior heretofore that would have been impossible to predict based on prior behavior. It was a one-time only display of impulsive low self-control that resulted in homicide.
