I have to thank you for having such a helpful and
informative website. I do have one pressing question,
though. I know a girl who told me that she was "thrown
through a wall" when she was nine years old, causing
skull fragments to damage her prefrontal cortex. She
is asserting that this damage to the part of her brain
that "controls emotion" has caused her to be a
sociopath.
I know that the term sociopath is archaic and is now
represented with Antisocial Personality Disorder. I am
a psychology student and through my research she fits
the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder and
NOT Antisocial. Could this damage to her prefrontal
cortex have caused BPD? Or at least helped her become
more susceptible to it? Thank you in advance for your
response.
Dr. Heller's Answer:
While frontal lobe damage may have contributed to her
symptoms (particularly the severity), the force of the
head injury could easily have caused damage elsewhere
in the brain, in this case the limbic system. A very
high percentage of those with BPD have had significant
head injuries.
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