Articles on Research
December 25, 2009 by dl
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Suffering Souls – The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy
Excerpt from The New Yorker:
The Western New Mexico Correctional Facility sits in high-desert country about seventy miles west of Albuquerque. Grants, a former uranium boomtown that depends heavily on prison work, is a few miles down the road. There’s a glassed-in room at the top of the prison tower, with louvred windows and, on the ceiling, a big crank that operates a searchlight. In a box on the floor are some tear-gas shells that can be fired down into the yard should there be a riot. Below is the prison complex—a series of low six-sided buildings, divided by high hurricane fences topped with razor wire that glitters fiercely in the desert sun. To the east is the snow-covered peak of Mt. Taylor, the highest in the region; to the west, the Zuni Mountains are visible in the blue distance.
Brain Activity Exposes Those Who Break Promises
Excerpt from Science Daily:
Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise.
Some People Really Feel Your Pain
Excerpt from Telegraph.co.uk:
Researchers found that around one in three people actually feel physical discomfort when they see someone else in agony.
The findings could explain why some people are more empathetic to other people’s misery.
The Invisible Epidemic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Memory and the Brain
Excerpt from The Doctor Will See You Now website:
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is something of an invisible epidemic. The events underlying it are often mysterious and always unpleasant.