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Alex Tselis and John Booss
“Personality and behavioral change can be prominent in infections of the brain.... Violence, theft, and antisocial behavior can be seen both in the acute illness and as sequels to the disease, resulting in incarceration. Some previously law-abiding patients have been arrested because of criminal behavior. Other patients have poor memory and an inability to organize behavior, leading to a dependence on others for their daily existence. Such patients have great difficulty in securing and sustaining a job, leading to disability, often when they are not obviously abnormal. Society’s response to such compromised individuals should be therapeutic, not punitive.”
— Alex Tselis and John Booss, in “Behavioral consequences of infections of the central nervous system: with emphasis on viral infections,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2003
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