“Officer Krupke, you’re really a square;
This boy don’t need a judge, he needs an analyst’s care!
It’s just his neurosis that oughta be curbed.
He’s psychologic’ly disturbed!”
From the mother country, comes word that teenage thugs could be suffering from a mental illness caused by a hormonal imbalance. A Cambridge University study of boys aged between 14 and 18 found a link between levels of the stress hormone cortisol and anti-social behaviour, London’s Daily Mail reports.
Cortisol is produced in higher amounts at times of stress and is thought to cause more cautious behaviour, helping people to keep a lid on their temper and any violent impulses. But in delinquent youths levels of the hormone tend not to rise when they are put in a high pressure or aggressive environment, the 18-month study found. Its findings point to the possibility of drugs being used in the future to control teenagers’ behaviour.
And while we’re poking around in the chemistry lab that is our body, here’s something else to ponder: another report out of Britain today raises the issue of whether there’s a genetic component to poor reading ability.
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