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EEG AS A PREDICTOR OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
MEDNICK SARNOFF A.,
VKA JAN VOLA,
GABRIELLI, Jr. WILLIAM F.,
ITIL TURAN M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1981.tb00413.x
Subject(s) - psychology , electroencephalography , developmental psychology , brain activity and meditation , longitudinal study , neuroscience , medicine , pathology
Slowing of alpha brain activity has been reported among antisocial individuals. One popular hypothesis to explain this slowing assumes a developmental lag, that is, brain immaturity. Studies to date have not established whether the brain wave activity precedes the development of antisocial behavior. The present longitudinal study attempts to answer this question by looking at EEG brain activity measures taken before the beginning of delinquent activity. Slower alpha patterns proved to be characteristic of later delinquents. The findings, however, do not support the developmental immaturity hypothesis.