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Scientists Identify Brain's 'Hate Circuit'
Yahoo News ^ | Nov 2, 2008 | Unknown Author

Posted on 11/02/2008 10:12:32 AM PST by Lazamataz

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- British researchers say they've identified a "hate circuit" in the brain. This hate circuit shares part of the brain associated with aggression, but is distinct from areas related to emotions such as fear, threat, and danger, said researchers Professor Semir Zeki and John Romaya, of University College London's laboratory of neurobiology. The study was published online Oct. 29 in the journal PLoS One. "Hate is often considered to be an evil passion that should, in a better world, be tamed, controlled, and eradicated," Zeki said in a journal news release. "Yet to the biologist, hate is a passion that is of equal interest to love. Like love, it is often seemingly irrational and can lead individuals to heroic and evil deeds. How can two opposite sentiments lead to the same behavior?" In this study, 17 female and male volunteers underwent brain scans while they looked at photos of a person they hated, along with photos of a "neutral" person. Looking at images of hated people triggered activity in an area that includes structures in the cortex and in the sub-cortex as well as components that generate aggressive behavior and translate it into action.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: biology; brain; emotions; hate; neurobiology; neuroscience; psychology
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1 posted on 11/02/2008 10:12:32 AM PST by Lazamataz
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2 posted on 11/02/2008 10:13:29 AM PST by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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Liberals will ask for taxpayer paid brain surgeries to remove the ‘hate circuit’...


3 posted on 11/02/2008 10:13:52 AM PST by SolidWood
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Science creates hateless DemocRATS? Wow, what a concept!


4 posted on 11/02/2008 10:15:00 AM PST by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: Lazamataz

Next up: a drug that suppresses that part of the brain - followed by mandatory distribution of “Soma”.


5 posted on 11/02/2008 10:15:03 AM PST by ctdonath2 (I AM JOE THE PLUMBER!)
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To: Lazamataz

Just in time for Obama’s Reeducation Camps.


6 posted on 11/02/2008 10:15:26 AM PST by John W (How can she be so smart and savvy, such a Hey Good Lookin' dish)
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To: SolidWood

No they won’t.

That would drastically reduce their voter turnout.


7 posted on 11/02/2008 10:15:26 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Lazamataz

What passes for science seems to be pretty much nonsense nowadays...


8 posted on 11/02/2008 10:15:38 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Vote FOR AMERICA . Vote McCain / Palin)
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To: Lazamataz
The shape of my Hate Circuit:


9 posted on 11/02/2008 10:16:05 AM PST by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh JEEZE.... another trial defense for the ACLU/Lib Defense Lawyers.


10 posted on 11/02/2008 10:16:43 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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Hamas TV Scientist Dr. Ahmad Al-Muzain: Bayer Invented Its Cure for AIDS on the Basis of a Hadith by Prophet Muhammad about the Wings of Flies

http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1889.htm

Following are excerpts from a program featuring Dr. Ahmad Al-Muzain, a Palestinian expert on Koranic science, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 19, 2008:

Quote:
Ahmad Al-Muzain: The Prophet Muhammad said: “If a fly falls into your drink, you should dip it in the drink, and then dispose of the fly, because one of its wings bears a disease, and the other wing bears the cure.” This hadith was included in the Al-Bukhari collection. This hadith makes it absolutely clear that the Prophet Muhammad confirmed a clear scientific fact: If a fly falls into a vessel – before a person drinks from this vessel, he should dip the fly in his drink, before disposing of it. Then he should drink the beverage, because it won’t do him any harm. Why? Because one of the fly’s wings bears the disease, and the other one bears the cure.

In Germany, the Church paid a very large sum of money to two scientists to disprove this hadith. Since this hadith appears in the Al-Bukhari collection, we cannot claim that it is unreliable or anything, and so they thought that if they could prove that this hadith contradicts science, they would be dealing a devastating blow to Islam.

The scientists took samples from the wings of flies, and began to examine them, analyze them, and take samples from their surface, in order to expose what existed on each wing. The devastating result constituted a slap in the face. The truth was devastating, and it backfired on them. The two scientists reached an astounding conclusion. They said that on one of its wings, the fly carries a huge amount of different types of bacteria, which adhere to it when it lands on rotting pieces of food that it eats. As for the other wing, Allah has given the fly the great ability to carry antidotes to these microbes

When Bayer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, learned about this study, it derived great benefit from it. It established biological breeding farms, where they would raise flies and extract antibiotics from their wings – the strongest antibiotics in the whole world. This antibiotic was made into a course of five pills, which is given to the patients, and it is used – believe it or not, my brothers – to treat AIDS patients. It strengthens their immune system, and destroys all types of microbes with which they are afflicted. This is all thanks to the power of this antibiotic. Obviously, this antibiotic is very expensive, and one course costs more than $500, but it is very strong and effective. How did they discover it? From this hadith.


11 posted on 11/02/2008 10:17:41 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: ctdonath2

>>Next up: a drug that suppresses that part of the brain - followed by mandatory distribution of “Soma”.

The best part about Soma is that it makes the chicks really pneumatic.


12 posted on 11/02/2008 10:18:26 AM PST by oblomov
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To: SECURE AMERICA

...yes, they “feel” they can apply the “structure” they create to anything they “feel” appropriate.


13 posted on 11/02/2008 10:18:52 AM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
What passes for science seems to be pretty much nonsense nowadays...

PROPOSED: Study to Find Out Why What Passes For Science Seems to be Pretty Much Nonsense Nowadays.

METHODOLOGY: Double-Blind Experimental Survey.

TARGET AGENCY: Center for Disease Control, Emory Campus.

REQUESTED FUNDING: $12,381,28.00.

14 posted on 11/02/2008 10:19:10 AM PST by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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I'm not even going to there Laz... LOL!
15 posted on 11/02/2008 10:19:11 AM PST by JDoutrider (Pray for our Nation! Stop the big Zero!)
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To: Lazamataz

Don’t hate the player, hate the brain.


16 posted on 11/02/2008 10:19:22 AM PST by RichInOC (...all aboard...my right brain!)
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I'm not even going to go there Laz... LOL!
17 posted on 11/02/2008 10:19:30 AM PST by JDoutrider (Pray for our Nation! Stop the big Zero!)
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To: Lazamataz

Apparently this ‘hate circuit’ is more prevalent in the red states.


18 posted on 11/02/2008 10:19:55 AM PST by exist
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The best part about Soma is that it makes the chicks really pneumatic.

Sign me up.

19 posted on 11/02/2008 10:20:06 AM PST by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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My hate circuit tripps at the mention of these terms: Left-wing-Liberalism / Marxism / Socialism / Progressivism / Communism / Main-Stream-Media / Fairness Doctrine / Spread the Wealth.


20 posted on 11/02/2008 10:22:43 AM PST by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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