BIOLOGICAL: Raine Et Al

Question 1

What was the date it was done?

Answer 1

1997.

Question 2

What does Raine et al support?

Answer 2

Localisation of brain function.

Question 3

How many murderers were there?

Answer 3

41.

Question 4

How many were men, how many were women?

Answer 4

39 men and 2 women.

Question 5

What did the murderers claim?

Answer 5

NGRI (Not guilty for reasons of insanity)

Question 6

How many had head injuries?

Answer 6

23.

Question 7

How many had schizophrenia?

Answer 7

6.

Question 8

How many had hyperactivity or learning disorders?

Answer 8

3.

Question 9

How many were epileptic?

Answer 9

2.

Question 10

How many had affective (emotional) disorders?

Answer 10

2.

Question 11

How many had personality disorders?

Answer 11

2.

Question 12

What was the control group matched to?

Answer 12

age and gender, along with the disorders/injuries.

Question 13

What were the participants injected with?

Answer 13

A tracer for the PET scan.

Question 14

What is a PET scan?

Answer 14

PET scan is Positron Emisson Tomography which identifies how hard portions of the brain are working by examining levels of glucose.

Question 15

What did the participants do?

Answer 15

A continuous task for 32 minutes which included focusing on a series of targets.

Question 16

What did the findings show?

Answer 16

Murderers had higher levels of activity in the occipital lobe and lower in the prefrontal and parietal areas compared to the control group.

Question 17

Where did murderers have higher levels of activity?

Answer 17

In the occipital lobe.

Question 18

Where did murderers have lower levels of activity?

Answer 18

In the prefrontal and parietal areas.