The Brain and Violence. Secrets of Your Mind
Description
Are some people predisposed to violence? Is there a region of the human brain that can be linked to evil? What is it like inside the mind of a psychopath? This ABC News program explores those questions as it follows cutting-edge work in psychology and neuroscience. Viewers visit death row for a close-up look at Tommy Lynn Sells and Joel Rifkin, two notorious case studies in psychopathology, and meet the distraught father of Chris Benoit, the pro-wrestler who murdered his family and then killed himself. Doctors describe how they believe Benoit had suffered extensive brain damage in the ring that drove him to murder-and how the same kind of impairment has also been found in football players who met tragic ends, after years of concussions and sub-concussive injuries on the field.
Runtime
39 min
Series
Subjects
- Brain (487)
- Criminal behavior (91)
- Interpersonal relations (422)
- Mental health (216)
- Ethics (196)
- Deviant behavior (131)
- Neurophysiology (78)
- Forensic sciences (154)
- Criminal psychology (102)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
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