Surely this is not the imp, though, but the shackles that normally keep him in check-remove the brake from a car and it will only move if you also apply the accelerator. It is common knowledge in the field of neuroscience now that these behaviors are due to a problem of 'disinhibition' because of a deterioration of the cognitive control network in the lateral prefrontal cortex. In fact, 57% of people with frontotemporal dementia (neural degeneration that targets the frontal and temporal lobes) violate social norms-engaging in sexual transgressions and public nudity, shoplifting in front of store managers, eating out of the trash. It turns out that stories like these are common. Not five minutes into the procedure, the neuropathologist noted the degeneration in the prefrontal cortex-including heavy degeneration of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (in the brain lying just above the temples and wrapping around the outer edges of the forehead), which is involved in 'cognitive control.' When the neuropathologist turned and asked the social worker about issues of impulsiveness and control, the social worker replied that the man had a tendency later in life to jump out of moving cars. Remarkably (and unusually), the social worker who had worked with the man when he was alive was there at the brain cutting. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote a short story called The Imp of the Perverse, about a man who gets away with murder only to blurt out his secret later in the. The brain in the first case was of an elderly man who had died recently. At the beginning of my graduate school career, I witnessed a 'brain cutting' by a neuropathologist.
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