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Brain Stimulation Reduces Feelings of Aggression
the-scientist.com ^ | Jul 3, 2018 | Sukanya Charuchandra

Posted on 07/04/2018 6:58:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin

E lectrically zapping a region of the brain responsible for controlling behavior and making moral decisions reduces violent tendencies, according to a study published in The Journal of Neurosience yesterday (July 2). Researchers suggest these results may help formulate a way of mitigating aggression.  

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The researchers gave “transcranial direct-current stimulation” to 81 individuals on the tops of their foreheads. While the test group was administered 20 minutes of electrical stimulation, the control group was given only 30 seconds of low current. Next, the subjects had to read two documents—one about a physical assault and the other, a sexual one. Following the reading, they were asked how likely they were to carry out a similar act. Those individuals that received the stimulation were 47 percent and 70 percent less likely to report being willing to commit physical and sexual violence, respectively, than those from the control group were.

...Delaney Smith, a forensic psychiatrist in Columbus, Ohio, who was not involved in the study, says, “anything we can add to the armamentarium to counter future acts of violence, the better.”

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1 posted on 07/04/2018 6:58:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Gat a bottle infrontome.


2 posted on 07/04/2018 7:01:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Better than a frontal lobotomy.


3 posted on 07/04/2018 7:18:53 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool

Eh, it’s just two different ways to kill the pain the same....


4 posted on 07/04/2018 7:28:05 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: BenLurkin

Hope for the leftists of the world!

Let’s start with 5 treatments a day for 5 years and see where we’re at. Zap them bad TDS brain cells until they no longer exist.


5 posted on 07/04/2018 7:40:48 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: BenLurkin

Up the voltage.You


6 posted on 07/04/2018 7:44:42 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: BenLurkin

Up the voltage.


7 posted on 07/04/2018 7:45:08 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: BenLurkin

Do not believe this crap.


8 posted on 07/04/2018 9:20:58 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin

Do they play Beethoven during the treatment?

9 posted on 07/04/2018 9:24:43 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps we should just dose them with G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate .


10 posted on 07/04/2018 9:32:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yeah. 99% effective.


11 posted on 07/04/2018 11:22:45 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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