Posts Tagged ‘aggression’
A Gunman’s Regret
Science can help society grapple with the horrors of modern gun violence …A death row inmate wrote to say that something I had written had helped him understand how his life derailed. If he had read this material on the neuroscience of violence earlier in his life, he wrote, “I might not be here today.”…
Read MoreHumans Are Genetically Predisposed to Kill Each Other
A new study of 1,024 mammal species has determined which animals are the most vicious killers of their own kind. Killer whales perhaps? Pit bulls maybe? For the answer, just look in the mirror.
Read MoreThe Neuroscience of Violence, Again
The first dead person I ever saw was a policeman. . .
Read MoreBrexit from a Neuroscience Perspective
A surprising outcome of my four-year investigation into the neuroscience of human aggression for my new book Why We Snap, was how the reductionist approach that I took to understand individual violent behavior in terms of the specific neural circuits responsible, exploded in scope to illuminate human aggressive behavior in mass–between groups of people, from…
Read More“You Don’t Have Time to Think.” Heroic Veteran Capt. Florent Groberg’s Selfless Action
Today it was announced that Army Capt. Florent Groberg will receive the Medal of Honor for instantly tackling a suicide bomber in a split-second reaction of self-sacrifice to save the lives of his comrades. “You don’t have time to think. You react,” he explains. But how is that possible? As we honor Capt. Groberg with…
Read MoreWatching TV Alters Children’s Brain Structure and Lowers IQ
Brain imaging (MRI) shows anatomical changes inside children’s brains after prolonged TV viewing that would lower verbal IQ.
Read MoreOn Boylston Street
(First published on BrainFacts.org ) The last time I was on Boylston Street it was to give a lecture in November at a scientific meeting in the Weston Hotel. Today, Sunday, I’m looking out onto an empty street, barricaded. An eerie modern-day ghost town festooned with yellow police tape rippling in the cold Boston wind. …
Read MoreHow to Measure Propensity for Aggression with a 6-Inch Ruler
Palm reading to measure personality? How can that be?
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