Inspiring neuropsychiatry: the nature of asocial behavior

In this episode, we with Prof.Dr. Sheldon Benjamin will talk about what the substantial basis of social behavior is. Prof.Dr. Sheldon Benjamin explains how childhood brain trauma leds to abnormalities in social adaptation, what the difference between asocial and antisocial behavior is, how modern psychiatry works with such patients and whether politics meets psychiatry.

You can find the full description of JP case in the paper by Benjamin et. al, 2023.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:33 Introducing Prof.Dr. Sheldon Benjamin
00:02:04 A forgotten case study: JP
00:04:56 The search for primary sources
00:08:38 A man without prefrontal cortex
00:13:43 Myelination and socialization in teenagers
00:14:48 Impulsivity vs. pathology
00:21:10 Asocial vs. antisocial behavior
00:27:32 Defining antisocial behavior and psychopathy
00:31:04 Examining JP's brain
00:39:31 Disease progression and JP's treatment
00:46:47 JP's impact on neuropsychiatry
00:48:21 Psychiatric evaluation in criminal justice
00:53:18 Antisocial behavior: facts and myths
00:59:48 Is psychiatric screening viable in politics?
01:08:48 Outro