Tag Archives: gray matter

A small neuroimaging study showed structural brain abnormalities in antisocial criminals with simultaneous psychopathy — but not in antisocial offenders without psychopathy 0

Citation Sarah Gregory, Dominic ffytche, Andrew Simmons, Veena Kumari, Matthew Howard, Sheilagh Hodgins, and Nigel Blackwood, The Antisocial Brain: Psychopathy Matters, A Structural MRI Investigation of Antisocial Male Violent Offenders, Archives of General Psychiatry, doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2012.222 (early online publication, 07 May 2012) Study’s objective The investigators wanted to find out whether they could detect structural gray [...]

“Abnormalities” in structure-related gray and white matter brain volumes may predispose people to stimulant drug abuse — a study with obvious caveats 0

Knowing as little as we do about the intricacies of brain function, we are reduced to looking at gross correlations for insights into the human behavior that is allegedly based on it A comparison of 50 stimulant drug abusers, their 50 non-drug abusing siblings, and 50 “normals” indicated that 100 siblings all exhibited enlarged amydalas [...]