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EFFECT OF BRAIN INJURY ON SOCIAL ADAPTABILITY
Author(s) -
Virkkunen M.,
Nuutila A.,
Huusko S.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1976.tb00072.x
Subject(s) - imprisonment , accidental , adaptability , psychology , injury prevention , head injury , right hemisphere , poison control , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , criminology , cognitive psychology , ecology , physics , acoustics , biology
The study tried to clarify social adaptability of persons with brain injuries by using a long‐term criminal development as a criterion. Randomly chosen 507 subjects whose open injury originated from the Second World War were followed up for about 30 years. The criminal acts committed by 29 (5.7%) of these subjects were so severe that they led to imprisonment. Criminality was not found in the subjects with fronto‐temporal injuries more often than in those with injuries to the other areas. Subjects with injuries to the dominant hemisphere appeared to have more criminality than subjects with injuries to the non‐dominant hemisphere. The criminal acts were often very accidental and had happened only after several decades following the head injury.