The possibility of knowing how a person's brain is functioning in real time, thanks to magnetic resonances, is causing many of the psychological or behavioral problems to be reflected also in the brain, seeing how certain areas are activated or not. Thanks to this it has been possible to study also how children's brain works with behavioral problems
Researchers in the United Kingdom wanted to know how children react to images of other people suffering pain and have seen that children with behavioral problems react differently (their brains work differently) than children with normal behavior.
How they did the study and what they concluded
To do the study they used magnetic resonances performed on children while they were shown images of other people suffering. Children with behavioral problems, defined as children with antisocial behaviors, who were cruel to others, who were physically aggressive and / or who had a clear lack of empathy, showed reduced responses to the pain of others, especially in regions of the brain closely linked to empathy. The most insensitive children showed the lowest activation levels of those areas of the brain.
According to the researchers, the existence of this reduced activity pattern in children with behavioral problems may be a risk factor of psychopathy in adulthoodprecisely because a psychopathy includes traits such as insensitivity, manipulation, the search for sensations and antisocial behaviors. Obviously, they left a door to hope by explaining that not all children are equal and that some change behavior as they grow and mature.
AdvertisingIn the words of Essi Viding, researcher of the study:
Our findings indicate that children with behavioral problems have an atypical brain response when seeing other people suffering ... It is important to consider these findings as an indicator of early vulnerability, and not a biological destination. We know that children can respond a lot to interventions and the challenge is to further improve those interventions, so that we can really help children, their families and the wider social environment.
Is the child with bad behavior born or made?
Reading the summary of the investigation, the door is open to think that a child is born with certain dormant brain areas or with little activation capacity and that for this reason he ends up developing bad behaviors. However, since the brain is plasticI doubt that this is the case, at least in the vast majority of occasions.
A baby's brain is 25% of the brain it will have in adulthood. This means that three quarters of our brain is formed abroad, based on our experiences, our environment, our interests and, ultimately, based on all the stimuli we receive, whether good, bad, better or worse.
It is very possible that children with bad behavior are like this because that is what they have suckled, or because, as the song says, "I am rebellious because the world has made me that way". That way, if a child grows up with a certain behavior, and it keeps on time, your brain will grow and develop based on those behaviors. To give an example, a depressed and depressed person will hardly have a brain whose areas responsible for happiness become overly active when they see beautiful things.
Fortunately, Not everything is lost. The brain behaves in the way that one teaches you to do it and in reality there is no need for resonances or scanners to know that if a child has bad behavior and hardly reacts to images of other people suffering, it could be a problematic adult in the future. The important thing is to make the child change, make the reasoning work, start work empathy and that of "I would not like them to do what I do." Over time, as a child changes, surely his brain also, activating previously "asleep" areas, just as a blind man sharpens the ear or a fearful dominates his panics.
