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 documentsone 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-scientist.com ...
Gat a bottle infrontome.
Better than a frontal lobotomy.
Eh, it’s just two different ways to kill the pain the same....
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.
Up the voltage.You
Up the voltage.
Do not believe this crap.
Perhaps we should just dose them with G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate .
Yeah. 99% effective.
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