EPILEPSY AND HOMICIDE

Epilepsy and homicide

PURPOSE We report the rare case of a patient with intractable epilepsy and escalating aggression, resulting in murder, who had complete resolution of her seizures and explosive behavior following a right temporal lobectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We searched the available literature from 1880 to 2013 for cases of epilepsy being used as a court defense for murder and collected information regard...

Domestic homicide and homicide-suicide: the older offender.

The importance of clarifying the features characteristic of older homicide offenders is highlighted by recent research that indicates an increase in rates of homicides followed by suicides of older perpetrators. In a retrospective study of data from coroners' files on domestic homicides involving individuals killed by an older spouse or family member (65+ years of age) over a 15-year period in ...

Homicide and Kinship

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Homicide and Capital Punishment

Homicide adaptations

a r t i c l e i n f o We propose Homicide Adaptation Theory as a new explanation for why people kill. Multiple homicide mechanisms have evolved as effective context-sensitive solutions to distinct adaptive problems. Killing historically conferred large fitness benefits: preventing premature death, removing cost-inflicting rivals, gaining resources, aborting rivals' prenatal offspring, eliminati...