From: Clint O'Dell (clintodell@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 1999 - 20:57:11 MDT
>"Damage" is a tricky word. Have feral children damaged brains? Certain
>parts never developed well during the critical periods of development (for
>example language in some cases), emotional neglect and abuse have
>programmed very dysfunctional behavior programs and reactions into their
>limbic systems and deprived environments have likely decreased overall cell
>and synapse count. I would say they have damaged brains, their brains are
>not just different, they work worse than "normal" brains. The same goes for
>antisocial personality disorder, it is not just an alternate normative
>system, it is a syndrome of personality and behavior changes that usually
>leads to serious problems for the person and impairs their decision making
>ability.
I think I'll just have to meet a few of these people suffering from
antisocial personality disorder and find out for myself. I've been reading
a lot about this ever since this thread started and none of my reading has
me convinced it's a disorder. Perhaps there are some documentation on the
web covering brain development differences? I find it very hard to swallow
that the frontal lobe is not developed fully or damaged in some way to cause
this. Have there been any cases of a person developing antisocial
personality disorder as an adult after a head injury? As extreme as
sociopathy?
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