Brain Tumour Caused Sexual Deviation

[liveinabin]

Brain tumour made man child abuser!

Makes you think, not sure what of though!

A brain tumour caused a 40-year-old man to become obsessed with sex and to molest children, doctors have reported.
The married schoolteacher from the United States, who had no previous history of sex offences, had an egg-sized tumour in the right lobe of the orbifrontal cortex, according to a report from newscientist.com.

This is the part of the brain responsible for judgement, impulse control and social behaviour.

The difference in this case was that the patient had a normal history before he acquired the problem

Dr Jeffrey Burns, University of Virginia
Doctors said that the location of the tumour played a key role in this case.

They said there was no evidence to suggest that other types of brain tumours could have a similar effect.

The man first began secretly visiting child pornography websites and soliciting prostitutes at massage parlours.

His wife evicted him from the family home after discovering he had made subtle sexual advances to young children.

Guilty verdict

He was then found guilty by the courts of molesting children and entered a treatment programme for convicted paedophiles.

A judge ordered him to sign up to a Sexaholics Anonymous rehabilitation programme or face going to prison.

However, the man was expelled from the programme after continuously asking women there for sex.

The evening before he was due to go to prison, he went to hospital complaining of a headache and saying he was afraid he would rape his landlady.

After he was remanded to psychiatric care, he complained of balance problems. A MRI scan revealed he had an egg-sized brain tumour.

Further tests found he was also unable to write or copy drawings and was unconcerned when he urinated on himself.

The tumour was removed and within seven months the man had completed the Sexaholics Anonymous treatment programme and was once again living at home.

In October 2001, he complained of headaches and started to secretly collect pornography again.

A MRI scan revealed that the tumour had regrown. It was removed and his behaviour disappeared.

Medical reasons

Russell Swerdlow and Jeffrey Burns of the University of Virginia who treated the patient said it suggested that doctors should consider brain tumours as the reason why some people became sex offenders.

But they warned that this only applied to people who suddenly become obsessed with sex and who have no previous history.

"If someone argues that every paedophile needs a MRI, the difference in this case was that the patient had a normal history before he acquired the problem," Dr Burns said.

"Most paedophiles develop problems early on in life."

But Dr David Rosenfield, a behavioural neurologist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said further research is needed.

"They have an interesting patient. I would wonder whether the tumour caused hormonal changes," he told newscientist.com.

The case study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association in New York.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Oliver Sacks has the story of a very old lady who developed a tumour
which had the effect of drastically reviving her libido. She requested
that any treatment she received should not deaden the pleasure she
took in this unexpected Indian Summer of lustful thoughts.

I don't think she went around molesting people though.

 

[rynner2]

Nightmare experience for man whose cancer turned him into a pedophile
December 31 2002

A brain tumour that was found to have triggered sexual aberration has made medical history.

New York: A brain tumour turned a 40-year-old schoolteacher into an uncontrollable sex addict and pedophile, a meeting of experts has been told.

When the tumour was removed, the man's obsession disappeared. But by then the teacher had been evicted from his house and found guilty of child molestation.

Russell Swerdlow and Jeffrey Burns, neurologists at the University of Virginia, believe it is the first reported case linking brain cancer with pedophilia.

They told the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association in New York that the tumour was in a brain region that did not affect physical health.

Dr Swerdlow said: "We're dealing with the neurology of morality here. It's one of those areas where you could have a lot of damage and a doctor would never suspect something's wrong."


The teacher had secretly started visiting child pornography websites and soliciting prostitutes, activities he had never engaged in before.

Dr Swerdlow said that while the man felt his new behaviour was unacceptable, in his words, the "pleasure principle overrode his restraint".

When the man's wife discovered he had been making subtle sexual advances towards young children, he was legally evicted from his house and found guilty of child molestation.

A judge ruled he had to pass a 12-step Sexaholics Anonymous rehabilitation course or face going to jail. But the man was expelled from the program after asking women on the course for sex, the meeting heard.

The evening before he was due to receive a prison sentence he took himself to a hospital. He said he was suffering headaches and feared he would rape his landlady.

After being remanded to psychiatric care, he complained of balance problems, and a MRI brain scan revealed an egg-sized tumour. Seven months after the tumour was removed, and having completed the Sexaholics Anonymous course, the man returned home and resumed a normal life.

In October last year the headaches returned and he started collecting pornography again. Another scan showed that the tumour had regrown, but again its removal caused the man's sex-obsessed behaviour to disappear.

Dr Burns said: "He wasn't faking, but if someone argues that every pedophile needs an MRI, the difference in this case was that the patient had a normal history before he acquired the problem."

David Rosenfield, a behavioural neurologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, said more research was needed on whether other problems with the orbifrontal cortex region of the brain might be linked to pedophilia.

(From http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/30/1041196598046.html )

A disturbing story, with all sorts of medical, moral, and legal ramifications.

So if you're accused of acting out of character for no obvious reason, demand a brain scan!

 

[Anonymous]

This doesn't really surprise me - it's long been known that head injury patients can develop behaviour problems or complete personality changes even when their injuries have apparently been cured. And there's been speculation for years that violent 'career criminals' might be suffering from brain injuries recieved in childhood.
Maybe we should be using MRI scans in prisons. Then we might have a clearer idea of who should be locked up for ever and who would benefit from medical/psychiatric treatment

 

[Beakmoo]

Have I seen this thread before somewhere?

 

[Anonymous]

Hmmm,sounds to me like he had a bloody good lawyer and a doctor with a theory........ still lets look on the bright side if it is true, it means eventually society will be able to cure ( lobotomise ) these scum of the earth paedo's. I know this view may be seen as harsh ( slightly to the right of attilla the hun probably ) but can anyone stand up and say they don't deserve it ?

 

[ruffready]

re: Scott Bainbridge

I agree- anyone who hurts a child especially peds. deserve the full extent of the law if found guilty.

 

[Anonymous]

but can anyone stand up and say they don't deserve it ?

Deserve it - no. Need it - yes. There's a difference. And Attila the Hun would surely agree that it made economic sense.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: re: Scott Bainbridge

I agree- anyone who hurts a child especially peds. deserve the full extent of the law if found guilty.

I don't know about the Us of A but here it's seen as a mental ilness so...they deserve treatment not judgment.

There goes my moral relativism again!

 

[Anonymous]

Wasn't it also suggested that Fred West's homicidal behaviour only manifested itself after a motorcycle accident and head injury?

 

[Anonymous]

Wasn't it also suggested that Fred West's homicidal behaviour only manifested itself after a motorcycle accident and head injury?

I havn't heard that one but it's probable.

i once nursed a man who had complete personality change after a motercycle acident so anything's posible.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

I think I've mentioned before the case from Oliver Sacks, where a very
old lady with an untreatable tumour in the brain began to experience a
wildly renewed libido. So far as I know, she limited herself to reverie but
was most insistent that her treatment should not suppress this Indian
Summer of pleasure!

The paedophile case is weirder still as it suggests a heightened libido and
an irresistible compulsion to act on it.

 

[Anonymous]

The paedophile case is weirder still as it suggests a heightened libido and
an irresistible compulsion to act on it.

I don't think that pedophelia and visiting prostitutes had anything to do with his libido. It's more about issues of dominance and controle.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Re: re: Scott Bainbridge

I don't know about the Us of A but here it's seen as a mental ilness so...they deserve treatment not judgment.

There goes my moral relativism again!

JV, I would agree that it is a mental illness, but just as many schizophrenic or psychotic people who endanger others are quite sure that their behaviour is perfectly fine and resent being told they are sick, so do many if not most pedophiles.

In the USA we know it's a mental illness but it currently is not curable (the recidivism rate is very very high, there is a reconviction rate of ~30%, and that's JUST the ones who end up caught again). Children are not capable of protecting themselves from predatory adults. This is regardless of the root cause of the predatory behaviour so we lock the predators up where they can't get to their chosen victims.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Re: Re: re: Scott Bainbridge

JV, I would agree that it is a mental illness, but just as many schizophrenic or psychotic people who endanger others are quite sure that their behaviour is perfectly fine and resent being told they are sick, so do many if not most pedophiles.

In the USA we know it's a mental illness but it currently is not curable (the recidivism rate is very very high, there is a reconviction rate of ~30%, and that's JUST the ones who end up caught again). Children are not capable of protecting themselves from predatory adults. This is regardless of the root cause of the predatory behaviour so we lock the predators up where they can't get to their chosen victims.

I don't know about the rate of recidivism here in the UK but is it right to lock someone up for the rest of their lifes because of a mental ilness?

And then most pedophiles are non acting and will not become acting so do we lock them up too?

 

[ruffready]

The peds (depending on the exact crime)

Get alot of breaks in the USA, they just keep getting caught over and over again (so thats why they get lots of breaks , so many repeat offendeds are on the streets soon) but, the ones who "rape" kidnap (like James Westerfield "who had no previous record) get the full extent of the law..its a bad system we have here in the usa 50 states with 50 different ways to interpet the law..I think it really needs a change..for instance repeat offenders could get castration,,or xtra time ..Mandatory couseling for 1st time offenders that last for life ..stuff needs to be looked at ..its just running wild here

 

[Anonymous]

Re: The peds (depending on the exact crime)

Get alot of breaks in the USA, they just keep getting caught over and over again (so thats why they get lots of breaks , so many repeat offendeds are on the streets soon) but, the ones who "rape" kidnap (like James Westerfield "who had no previous record) get the full extent of the law..its a bad system we have here in the usa 50 states with 50 different ways to interpet the law..I think it really needs a change..for instance repeat offenders could get castration,,or xtra time ..Mandatory couseling for 1st time offenders that last for life ..stuff needs to be looked at ..its just running wild here

Don't work the rate of ofending in cases of pedophelia and child kidnap are not incresing it's just that the press sell newspapers by reporting on it in a sensationalist manner.

And castration? We have cast pedaphiles as sociaties new bogie men. And to think it used to be single mother/ homosexuals/ the mentaly ill (delete where aproprate.)

 

[ruffready]

I just can't seem to understand

PeeWee Herman..

 

[Anonymous]

Re: I just can't seem to understand

PeeWee Herman..

Didn't he masterbate in a porn cinema?

Strange behaviour.

 

[ruffready]

yes he did

with his money he could have paid someone to do it for him in the privicy of his home..he must get off by taking risk or like the "Wam" guy Michael ----- he took a chance with a complete stranger in a public bathroom who turned out to be a straight cop ..these guys have enough $$$ to have any fantasy they choose and they do the dumbest things!!

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Re: I just can't seem to understand

Didn't he masterbate in a porn cinema?

Strange behaviour.

Hmm! A tad sarcastic JV! After all there are entire districts, nay! Entire cities built on just such behaviour! And so much healthier than the real thing these days!

I taped The Mystery Men the other day! He's in his element as The Spleen! Remind it me of Marvel's old Brand Echh! comics, Ruff!

And I thought Pee Wee's Big Adventure was brilliant when it first came out!

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Re: Re: I just can't seem to understand

Hmm! A tad sarcastic JV! After all there are entire districts, nay! Entire cities built on just such behaviour! And so much healthier than the real thing these days!

What cities? Can you get a cheap ticket?

 

[Anonymous]

Re: yes he did

with his money he could have paid someone to do it for him in the privicy of his home..he must get off by taking risk or like the "Wam" guy Michael ----- he took a chance with a complete stranger in a public bathroom who turned out to be a straight cop ..these guys have enough $$$ to have any fantasy they choose and they do the dumbest things!!

Ah! Yes the Pretty Police are always with us!

Did produce a great video out of it though, huh?

More than can be said for Hugh Grant...

 

[ruffready]

oh yes!! I still have some of those!!

ForbrushMan!! etc..good stuff!! Andro

 

[Anonymous]

Re: oh yes!! I still have some of those!!

ForbrushMan!! etc..good stuff!! Andro

As I've said before and I'll say again: this thread is turning and turning in a widening gyre.

 

[Anonymous]

But, Seriously Though, Folks...

The main difference between these guys and yer average 'pedo' is that Pee Wee, George and Hugh probably feel that the one thing big money can't buy is the thrill of danger and being out there, away from the hacienda style, high security, pad with 24hr Security patrol. Actually being vulnerable! Cruising the rough and seamy makes them steamy...

Where as yer' average 'pedo' is probably an insecure, emotional retard, more into the exercising of power over others, weaker than they are, than the sex (i.e They get off on the power trip). That's why they're also like rapists and wife an child beaters.

So, pretty big difference and not to be confused.

 

[Anonymous]

Can I just say that cotiging is not the smae as pedophelia.

As an infreqent cruiser (though not into cotiging) I can say tha I have never harbored pedophelic tendincies even though I like sex outside.

There is no link, I'm sorry folks.

 

[Anonymous]

Can I just say that cotiging is not the smae as pedophelia.

As an infreqent cruiser (though not into cotiging) I can say tha I have never harbored pedophelic tendincies even though I like sex outside.

There is no link, I'm sorry folks.

Which is what I'm also saying, by the way!

Not that I've ever been cruising, of course, or cottaging! :blush: But I'm a big fan of Joe Orton and Michel Foucault. Not William Burroughs though, he was too clever by half...

 

[Anonymous]

Which is what I'm also saying, by the way!

Not that I've ever been cruising, of course! :blush: But I'm a big fan of Joe Orton and Michel Foucault. Not William Burroughs though, he was too clever by half...

Sorry, being over sensitive.

And what's wrong with Uncle Will? It's his cleverness I love (try 'Queer' for a less clever-clever Burrows.)

 

[James_H]

Foucoult too post-modern, melikes old bill b. though, much to the bemusement of my elders.