Auditory event related potentials in violent and nonviolent prisoners

European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences
M E DrakeS A Hietter

Abstract

The neurophysiologic substrates of violence and aggression have been extensively studied. Although the EEG is often normal in violent persons any abnormalities are generally nonspecific in nature. Evoked potentials have been infrequently used to study such behavior disorders. Long latency auditory event-related potentials (AEPs) were studied in prison inmates incarcerated for unmotivated violent crimes or violence during the commission of other crimes, and in prisoners jailed for non-violent offenses. Habitually violent inmates were compared with an equal number of non-violent prisoners and neurologically and audiologically intact controls. AEPs were recorded to an "oddball" paradigm from vertex and left and right temporal electrodes. None of the prisoners had latencies more than 3 standard deviations beyond the normal group mean. N1 and P2 components were longer in latency and lower in amplitude in prisoners than in controls, but this was not statistically significant. Violent and non-violent individuals did not differ in these measures. P3 was significantly prolonged in latency in violent inmates, but not in those who had committed a violent act. All components were longer in latency on the right in violent prisoners, while a...Continue Reading

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