Scientists Study Brains Of Three-Year-Olds, Predict Future Criminals

[JBeukema]

Experiments by Raine have found that by looking at the brains of 3-year-old children, scientists could already see signs of potential trouble in the future. Raine discussed this research Monday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington.
Those who had poor amygdala function at that time were more likely to become criminal offenders later in life, in the 20-year time span during which the scientists followed them. The amygdala is an almond-shaped brain area associated with fear, and it appears that a trend among offenders is that fear conditioning is impaired. Researchers did not directly measure amygdala function in a brain scanner, but used the children's fear responses to an anticipated punishment as a proxy for that.
In fact, adult psychopaths appear to have an 18% reduction of the volume of the amygdala compared with non-psychopaths. This difference might explain why psychopaths lack remorse, fear and guilt.

Kids' brains may hold clues to future criminals – The Chart - CNN.com Blogs

 

[editec]

If we eliminated all the potential children who will become criminals, who will we run for Congress?

Who will run our major corporations?

Decent people?!

We're not equipped to run a society designed by, for and of theives, folks.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Experiments by Raine have found that by looking at the brains of 3-year-old children, scientists could already see signs of potential trouble in the future. Raine discussed this research Monday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington.
Those who had poor amygdala function at that time were more likely to become criminal offenders later in life, in the 20-year time span during which the scientists followed them. The amygdala is an almond-shaped brain area associated with fear, and it appears that a trend among offenders is that fear conditioning is impaired. Researchers did not directly measure amygdala function in a brain scanner, but used the children's fear responses to an anticipated punishment as a proxy for that.
In fact, adult psychopaths appear to have an 18% reduction of the volume of the amygdala compared with non-psychopaths. This difference might explain why psychopaths lack remorse, fear and guilt.

Kids' brains may hold clues to future criminals – The Chart - CNN.com Blogs

Why do you keep posting junk science? When are you going to start using your brain and do some actual thinking?

 

[geauxtohell]

A note of caution: people still think that having the 47 XYY karyotype makes a person highly prone to criminality when it has been shown to not be the case.

However, if we can find neurophysiological clues that would help us do early interventions in the lives of potential criminals, well that's just dandy.

Those whacky psychiatrists!

 

[percysunshine]

Everyone who was ever three years old knows that the tooth fairy was a conspiracy of their parents intending to get them to eat their vegetables.