On the neurology of morals.
Patients with medial prefrontal lesions often display irresponsible behavior, despite being intellectually unimpaired. But similar lesions occurring in early childhood can also prevent the acquisition of factual knowledge about accepted standards of moral behavior.
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Raymond Dolan is at the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom. r.dolan@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk.
D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*