Psychopathology and criminal personality changes in patients with frontal lobe injuries

Proceeding from H. Cosack (1937), and in view of the fact that since then no further casuistic contributions relating to the crimogenic aspect of the psychopathological frontal brain syndrome or to the forensic psychiatry of persons with frontal brain damage have appeared, we take up the discussion with five of our own cases. Since modern procedures have made it possible to localise exactly the consequences of brain damage, a new round of investigations might be expected to resolve the problems still left open.