psychopaths and the frontal lobe
Your claim that the connection between frontal lobe dysfunction and psychopaths not being proven - I have to dispute.
Spending many hours pouring through the research of various fields of neroscience, mental health, etc... shows an overwhelming connection between frontal lobe dysfunction and psychopaths - and this goes way beyond just brain scans.
Here are just a few...
An underlying cause for psychopathic behavior? -- ScienceDaily
Psychopathy Linked to Impaired Sense of Smell, Frontal Lobe | Psych Central News
Molecular Psychiatry - Abstract of article: Altered connections on the road to psychopathy
There are some studies that try to replicate the findings dispute the connection, but the studies usually admit it could be because of not selecting the same population, etc... they may study a group of people that are in prison for whatever crime, but no determination is made whether they have remorse for what they did, etc... that is not a fair comparison to the study of people who are clearly psychopathic but are not necessarily criminals. In any case, it only takes a quick search to find countless connections between psychopathy and a dysfunctional frontal lobe.
The American Ruling Class - I bet would have a disproportionately high rate of frontal lobe damage compared to the average person.
Whether the connection has been "proven" or not is a matter of opinion. The facts are that the overwhelming majority of the published literature on the subject clearly show the connection between psychopathic behavior and the frontal lobe.
Basically, there is way more evidence to support the idea that psychopaths have dysfunctional frontal lobes than evidence that suggests otherwise.
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@Aljhoa - interesting about the presidents. Of course we can only know so much, but the results aren't too surprising. GWB clearly was clearly not the "decider" that he claimed to be and Clinton was a fairly mild-mannered crook. Everyone will score something on these type of tests.
I wonder where Obama would rank on this scale. He clearly would be in the dictionary next to Narcissistic to say the least.
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So far 2 things stick out for the improvement of frontal lobe function. One is a gluten free diet, which after more research it does appear to be significant and the other would be binaural beat audio tracks. They stimulate more activity in the frontal lobe - haven't yet checked if that has actually been used in frontal lobe treatment. Makes even more sense why Monsanto is so fascinated with GMO grain. Not only do they want to screw with people's brains, they want everyone infertile. They're the quintessential ruling class.
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Spending many hours pouring through the research of various fields of neroscience, mental health, etc... shows an overwhelming connection between frontal lobe dysfunction and psychopaths - and this goes way beyond just brain scans.
Here are just a few...
An underlying cause for psychopathic behavior? -- ScienceDaily
Psychopathy Linked to Impaired Sense of Smell, Frontal Lobe | Psych Central News
Molecular Psychiatry - Abstract of article: Altered connections on the road to psychopathy
There are some studies that try to replicate the findings dispute the connection, but the studies usually admit it could be because of not selecting the same population, etc... they may study a group of people that are in prison for whatever crime, but no determination is made whether they have remorse for what they did, etc... that is not a fair comparison to the study of people who are clearly psychopathic but are not necessarily criminals. In any case, it only takes a quick search to find countless connections between psychopathy and a dysfunctional frontal lobe.
The American Ruling Class - I bet would have a disproportionately high rate of frontal lobe damage compared to the average person.
Whether the connection has been "proven" or not is a matter of opinion. The facts are that the overwhelming majority of the published literature on the subject clearly show the connection between psychopathic behavior and the frontal lobe.
Basically, there is way more evidence to support the idea that psychopaths have dysfunctional frontal lobes than evidence that suggests otherwise.
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@Aljhoa - interesting about the presidents. Of course we can only know so much, but the results aren't too surprising. GWB clearly was clearly not the "decider" that he claimed to be and Clinton was a fairly mild-mannered crook. Everyone will score something on these type of tests.
I wonder where Obama would rank on this scale. He clearly would be in the dictionary next to Narcissistic to say the least.
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So far 2 things stick out for the improvement of frontal lobe function. One is a gluten free diet, which after more research it does appear to be significant and the other would be binaural beat audio tracks. They stimulate more activity in the frontal lobe - haven't yet checked if that has actually been used in frontal lobe treatment. Makes even more sense why Monsanto is so fascinated with GMO grain. Not only do they want to screw with people's brains, they want everyone infertile. They're the quintessential ruling class.
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