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A new has found that antisocial people are more to have smaller areas of their brain. Researchers said criminals' brains had a structure to the brains of people who followed the . The study is published in the "Lancet Psychiatry". Researchers used data from 672 people in 1972-73. They looked at records of the people's antisocial between the ages of seven and 26. At the age of 45, the researchers scanned the people's brains. Eighty of the people had a of criminal and antisocial behaviour from being teenagers. Researchers found that the of the brain linked to emotions, motivation and behaviour control were smaller in the long-term criminals' brains.

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