The Contribution of Acquired Brain Injuries on Criminal Behaviour
On a busy road, when the traffic rushes like water breaking through a dam and the lights refuse to turn red, the decision you may make to run across when there is a small break between cars, is a conscious one. Our ability to make informed decisions is what allows us to take responsibility for our actions. Every choice we make, every action we take is a result of neuronal pathways firing in a particular sequence in various areas of the brain. An area called the pre-frontal cortex is...