Biomedical subjects

S Huusko

Publications and source records attributed to S Huusko.

12 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1977

Brain injury and criminality. A retrospective study.

This follow-up study elucidates the incidence of criminality among brain injured persons. All the 1930 Finnish veterans who survived a penetrating brain injury during World War II were included in the study. The follow-up covered a period of 32-37 years. Five hundred randomly selected non-injured veterans of the same war were used as controls. A comparison of the frequency of convictions for crimes punishable by imprisonment among the injured and non-injured groups revealed no statistically significant difference between the two groups. This result shows, in accord with several reports on this subject published in the last two decades, that criminal behavior is not a sequela of injury to the brain.

Adult↗

PubMed1976

Effect of brain injury on social adaptability. Longitudinal study on frequency of criminality.

The study tried to clarify social adaptability of persons with brain injuries by using a long-term criminal development as a criterion. Randomly chosen 507 subjects whose open injury originated from the Second World War were followed up for about 30 years. The criminal acts commited by 29 (5.7%) of these subjects were so severe that they led to imprisonment. Criminality was not found in the subjects with fronto-temporal injuries more often than in those with injuries to the other areas. Subjects with injuries to the dominant hemisphere appeared to have more criminality than subjects with injuries to the non-dominant hemisphere. The criminal acts were often very accidental and had happened only after several decades following the head injury.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1976