Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex

S. Anderson; A. Bechara; H. Damasio; D. Tranel; A. Damasio

DOI:10.1038/14833

Corpus ID: 204990285

Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex

@article{Anderson1999ImpairmentOS,
  title={Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex},
  author={S. Anderson and A. Bechara and H. Damasio and D. Tranel and A. Damasio},
  journal={Nature Neuroscience},
  year={1999},
  volume={2},
  pages={1032-1037}
}

S. Anderson, A. Bechara, +2 authors A. Damasio

Published 1999

Medicine, Psychology

Nature Neuroscience

The long-term consequences of early prefrontal cortex lesions occurring before 16 months were investigated in two adults. As is the case when such damage occurs in adulthood, the two early-onset patients had severely impaired social behavior despite normal basic cognitive abilities, and showed insensitivity to future consequences of decisions, defective autonomic responses to punishment contingencies and failure to respond to behavioral interventions. Unlike adult-onset patients, however, the… CONTINUE READING

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