Discovering the 'devil zone' in the human brain

After studying murderers, robbers and rape, a German neurologist declared bad thoughts and actions were all formed from a region in the brain.

Gerhard Roth, a neurologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, asked some prisoners to take part in a test. These prisoners commit crimes of robbery, rape and murder. They watched short films while Roth monitored their brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging. He noticed that a small area of ​​the front part of the brain did not react (ie, not glowing) when they watched violent scenes, Bild reported.

Scientists give different opinions about "demonic regions" in the human brain.

"Whenever a violent and macabre scene occurs, the research group does not show emotions. No activity in the brain region controls their compassion and pain. It is certainly the region. The brain that bad thoughts arise and hide , " Roth said.

But some experts object to Roth's argument, Fox News said. Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of the neurology department at New York University School of Medicine in the US, emphasized that human behavior and emotions are complex concepts and bad thoughts cannot form in a brain region. certain.

"Each region in the brain plays an important role for certain behaviors and emotions. But we cannot be certain that certain X regions produce Y behavior , " Galetta said.

Terre Constantine, executive director of the Brain Research Foundation, also doubted Roth's research, but agreed that abnormalities in the brain - like tumors - could affect human behavior.

"It is possible that bad human behaviors and thoughts arise from many areas of the brain, not just in one region , " Constantine said.