Your Personality Is Your Frontal Lobe

When the brain goes haywire, and a person can no longer infer the mental state of others, the frontal lobe is to blame.  In a study performed by researchers at the University of Haifa, in Israel, frontal lobe damage has been implicated in psychopathy. Psychopathic personality types typically lack remorse, and may be influenced to behave without conscience.

People with traumatic brain injury also seem to be deficient with a similar constellation of symptoms as psychopaths.  Easily, technologies like tDCS may be able to re-activate those brain areas whose metabolism have been lulled into sleep mode.  When frontal lobe damage occurs in multiple incidents, dissocial behavior may result.  Children ought to avoid activities which harm their brains, as the stress response is more easily programmed into their memory centers than adults.  In order to decrease destructive social unrest, it ought to be common policy to treat traumatic brain injuries early, and perhaps institute treatment in prisons as a part of regular rehabilitation.  Otherwise a bad personality will result.

Disease models aside, the frontal lobe is the most advanced and the most human part of our most precious organ.  Not only responsible for empathic inferences, it also houses the higher executive function which allows us to make good judgments socially.  Humor is also located there, and it is apparent that psychopaths and trauma patients are no laughing matter.