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From: Whistleblower on 1 Oct 2005 22:48
Legitimate ASD-med posters have been the targets of vicious
cyberstalking/harassment and maliciou defamation owing to the compulsive and
pathological lying of sociopaths preying on ASD-med---such as Pablo,
Deborah Bentley and Eric Riddick.

Scientists believe they discovered pathology or abnormal brain structures
which facilitate these sociopaths compulsive and pathological lying.

Thursday, 29 September 2005, 23:40 GMT
Liars' brains 'are not the same'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4293520.stm
A deceitful person's brain is different, the study suggests
Habitual liars' brains differ from those of honest people, a study says.
A University of Southern California team studied 49 people and found those
known to be pathological liars had up to 26% more white matter than others.

White matter transmits information and grey matter processes it. Having more
white matter in the prefrontal cortex may aid lying, the researchers said,

But the British Journal of Psychiatry said there were likely to be more
differences in the brains of liars.

Manipulative behaviour

Participants were volunteers drawn from five temporary employment agencies
in Los Angeles.

Three separate groups were studied.

The issue is always how much of our behaviour is under voluntary control
and how much is innate

Dr Cosmo Hallstrom, Consultant Psychiatrist

The first consisted of 12 men and women with a history of being pathological
liars; the second was 21 people who did not have a history of lying or
anti-social behaviour.

The third group consisted of 16 people with anti-social personality disorder
but no history of pathological lying. They were studied to see if they
showed the same brain make-up as liars.

The researchers drew up a list of criteria for lying, cheating and
deceiving, including habits such as conning people or behaving
manipulatively, and telling lies in order to obtain sickness benefits.

They also assessed how much grey and white matter people had in the
prefrontal cortex areas of their brains, using structural magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI).

Liars were found to have between 22 and 26% more white matter than either
those with no history of lying or those in the anti-social group.

Childhood

The findings could not be explained by differences in age, ethnicity, IQ,
head injury or substance misuse.

This is the first study to show a brain difference in people who lie, cheat
and manipulate others, the researchers said.

They said the study could help research into areas such as people who feign
illness.

The findings are in line with previous studies which showed children with
autism are less capable of lying than other children.

Brain neurodevelopmental studies of autism show people with the condition
have more grey matter than white matter - the opposite pattern to the liars
in this study.

The researchers say the link between white matter and a deceitful
personality could be that white matter provides a person with the cognitive
capacity to lie.

Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the research team led by Dr
Yaling Yang, say: "To our knowledge, this is the first study to show a brain
abnormality in people who lie, cheat and manipulate others.

"The results further implicate the prefrontal cortex as an important - but
not sole - component in the neural circuitry underlying lying, and provide
an initial neurological correlate of a deceitful personality."

They add: "Further studies are required to examine changes in brain anatomy
during the critical neurodevelopmental period in childhood, alongside
changes in lying ability, to test further our preliminary hypothesis on the
link between prefrontal white matter and lying."

Dr Cosmo Hallstrom, a consultant psychiatrist in London, said: "The issue is
always how much of our behaviour is under voluntary control and how much is
innate.

"The finding of brain abnormalities lends weight to the idea that a strong
component of such difficulties may well be beyond voluntary control at least

in part."



--
"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance my deride
it, but in the end, there it is."
Winston Churchill


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