EEG ABNORMALITIES IN FORENSIC PATIENTS
Keywords:
EEG, prevention of recidiv, forensic centres of mental healthAbstract
The criminal factor is an element that throws a person out of the track of normal life at the moment of his life and brings them into the balance of those and together with those who are on the other side of the law. Crime, criminals commit with aggressive or non-aggressive behavior. Crime is defined as a violation of the law on crime. Some authors compare the increased risk of violent behavior with the rest of the population. Other authors point out that violent behavior in patients with mental disorders is represented in a higher percentage than criminal behavior in the rest of the population. Goals of our investigation are as follows:1. Was defined the importance of the difference between the EEG changes in patients with criminal behavior and the patients from the control group; In this paper we presented 67 EEG investigations made on patients, which ere examined in the Psychiatric Hospital in Demir Hisar for a period 2019-2021, who were with criminal behavior(murders). The control group consists of 67 patients who were being treated in Psychiatric hospital in Demir Hisar, had no crime behavior, and were hospitalized in the same period with corresponding demographic and clinical date as the examiners in investigation group. The abnormal EEG finding are registered in (31.00%) of examiners in the investigated group, but in patients in the control group EEG findings were registered in (8%) of patients. For p < 0.001 it mens that there is significant association between the groups. Likewise, health professionals should provide information that neurophysiological dysfunctions can be the cause of violent and antisocial behavior, which in turn can cause criminogenicity, especially homocide. With the help of this EEG method, we can more easily diagnose psychiatric disorders with aggressive and criminogenic behavior, while facilitating psychiatric expertise that would help and contribute to the conduct of court proceedings in determining security measures in respondents with criminogenic behavior.
We sugest early founding the risk of criminal using EEG method, and so we will help to psychiatric expertises, enought long treatment to forensic patients and the involvement of the mental health service in the further ongoing treatment of such persons in forensic mental health centers.
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