May 2012
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“[Giving] rise to the question of the free will to do evil: Advances in...”
– Arguing that We Have No Free Will [via]. The irony being that you may not have control over your actions, but someone else could.
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thoughtfulcynic asked: Hello, Thanks for a great tumblr. I subscribed to the Neuro Ethics blog, as well. In your post from 1/5/12 on the neuroscience of desire, the second link (entitled "Somebody a long time ago had it right") is dead because a video has been removed from youtube. Is it possible to tell me what video this was? I feel certain I can find it elsewhere on the web. Thanks again, Karen
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“Write exactly what you would want to read, what you wish someone else had...”
– Neuroscientist, David Eagleman replying to: “What advice would you give to an aspiring author?” [via]
…Meanwhile: this ol blog she aint what she used to be, aint what she used to be…
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Anonymous asked: you just paired seen and not seen with a post about amygdalae involvement in fear recognition and I fell in love
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“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for...”
– Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
I highly recommend this book to anyone that is interested in sociopathy or psychopathy. I linked the amazon page above.
(via approachingsignificance)
—It’s like I need to start a secret blog about all this. Because no.
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“Well I be dropping the new science and kicking the new ka-knowledge.
MC to a...”
– Paul’s Boutique, track six,“The Sounds of Science”. Beastie Boys
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April 2012
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Did Humans Invent Music? →
jtotheizzoe:
Psychologists Gary Marcus & Geoffrey Miller debate the origins of human music and its associated behaviors. Is it a cultural invention, a technology that piggy-backs on language? Or is there a deeper genetic wiring behind our music and its neurological effects?
Marcus says:
“Ancient” seems like a bit of stretch to me. The oldest known musical artifacts are some bone flutes...
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“Previous studies suggest that severe sexual sadism and psychopathy are...”
– From Empathy in sexually sadistic offenders: An experimental comparison with non-sadistic sexual offenders [via]
Yeah? Did a couple of tests there? Self-reporting and interviews? I see. Right, so I was just reading somewhere about how people feel about scientists when they dig in their heels...
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"The understanding of the neural circuitry... →
A recent study found that in the hypothalamus of male mice, about 20% of neurons responsible for aggression overlap with the neurons responsible for mating (due to location) linking the circuitry for sex and violence. With some foggy implications,
Functional imaging and other emerging new technologies could be used to see whether such neuron abnormalities exist in rapists, they contended.
Or...
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“Yet when Psychiatric News asked Anderson whether anyone is using functional...”
– Um… yeah. Hi. Is this blog on? [via Researchers Find Link Between Aggression, Sex in Male Mice]
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Neuroscience, PTSD and Sentencing Mitigation →
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Like other mental disorders, PTSD has been advanced in criminal law to support sentencing mitigation. Unlike other disorders, however, PTSD traces back to an event that is considered the cause of the disorder, known as the stressor. Stressors can range from car accidents to gang violence to the commission of a crime. This article examines whether lawmakers should consider the...