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Electrical brain stimulation may help reduce violent crime in future – study
It could be a shocking way to treat future criminals. Scientists have found that a session of electrical brain stimulation can reduce people's intentions to commit assaults, and raise their moral awareness.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore explored the potential for brain stimulation to combat crime after noting that impairment in a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex has been linked to violent acts.
They recruited 86 healthy adults and gave half of them 20 minutes of brain stimulation before asking the whole group to read two hypothetical scenarios, one describing a physical assault, the other a sexual assault. Immediately afterwards, the participants were asked to rate the likelihood that they might behave as the protagonist had in the stories.
For those who had their brains zapped, the expressed likelihood of carrying out the physical and sexual assaults was 47% and 70% lower respectively than those who did not have brain stimulation. In the first scenario, Chris smashes a bottle over Joe's head for chatting up his girlfriend, and in the second, a night of intimate foreplay leads to date rape.
[...] Using a procedure called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS, [Prof. Olivia] Choy and her colleagues Adrian Raine and Roy Hamilton at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a 2 milliAmp current to the prefrontal cortex of volunteers to boost the region's activity.
Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex Reduces Intentions to Commit Aggression: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Stratified, Parallel-Group Trial (DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3317-17.2018) (DX)
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:02PM (15 children)
Other cures for Antifa may include traumatic brain injury [youtube.com] and lobotomy.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:30PM (3 children)
Awww did a big black man turn you into a cuck? Maybe get one of those penis pumps and you can move up from micro to tiny.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:01PM (2 children)
This is Tiny [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:25PM (1 child)
Too risky of a click thxkbye
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:15AM
Clicks > clique
Try Sargon [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by Aegis on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:57PM (10 children)
Why just this week the people who are opposed to fascism pulled a gun on a group of people who were just peacably excersizing their first ammendment rights. [washingtonpost.com]
And then another one was charged with a hate crime for murdering someone for the crime of free speech. [fortune.com]
Oh wait.......no......it was the fascists that did that. My mistake!
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:11PM (4 children)
Good, nobody likes fascists and no one is defending vehicular homicide. People getting hurt isn't funny but there's no sympathy for hitting someone with a metal bar. [funnyjunk.com] No more sympathy for masked communists turning up to harass, verbally absue and assault a mixed race Christian constitutionalist prayer group than your "womp womp" example.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:38PM (3 children)
Someone disagrees with me, someone likes fascists? Well, we all know what Marxism leads to! [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:43AM (1 child)
I think that was the president. He said they weren't all bad, had some good people, etc etc. Of course, it might have been someone else. The fascists are comfortably coming out of the woodwork these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:07AM
True [youtube.com] but they call themselves anti-fascists. Love how we transition from the cringe of a prayer rally to the beauty of the working class rising up against the bourgeois socialist oppressors. Marx and Engels would have been so proud!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:58AM
Sure: Fascists like fascists.
(Score: 0) by XivLacuna on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:46AM
The other side of the story.
https://dailystormer.name/man-yelled-womp-womp-and-pulled-a-gun-in-self-defense-at-pro-invasion-protest/ [dailystormer.name]
Seems like he only pulled it after the marxists started getting ready to speak with their fists. Fist speech is not free speech.
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/09/05/heather-heyer-died-of-a-heart-attack/ [occidentaldissent.com]
Heather Heyer was never even hit by James Field, who was fleeing after his car was attacked by anti-fa.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:22AM (2 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJBTXJdz1Q [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJufM2mxZOY [youtube.com]
You need to get in touch with reality. Antifa is no less evil than the "fascists" they claim to stand against.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 04 2018, @05:54AM (1 child)
Really, are those the best you can come up with?
And you think that's anywhere even close to a guy running a young girl down with a car?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:57PM
Short notice, quick search, I found those. I can find more and better, if you insist. Did you know that Antifa has an armed wing or branch, whose very purpose it is to stir up trouble at any demonstration? I linked to those guys once before. Apparently, you need to see it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpSmW_wTaPM [youtube.com]
Antifa hassling a reporter, while carrying weapons.
https://www.redneckrevolt.org/ [redneckrevolt.org]
The armed wing's homepage. I will note that the page is extremely slow to load, and it seems you must enable javascript - it's a sucky page, as pages go.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-06/ut-professor-threatened-armed-antifa-group-found-dead [zerohedge.com]
Antifa murders a professor from University of Texas
Now let me ask you - do you REALLY believe that Antifa is somehow superior to any other group af assholes who want to rule the world? Do you REALLY believe they are any less fascist than the fascists they claim to oppose?
White supremacists do extremely stupid shit all the time - and Antifa follows right in their footsteps. Dirtbags are dirtbags, no matter which slogan they are shouting.
And, meanwhile, they are largely indistinguishable from people like Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson who make a living by keeping the shit stirred.
Maybe you need a cause to follow, and you think this bullshit is the "most worthy" or some such silly shit. Dude - find a real cause. Antifa is nonsense, from start to finish. It's just the newest face of the tired old hag named Communism. Racist communists - imagine that.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:27AM
Ooooh, is it cherrypicking season again? Look ma, I found one [cnn.com]!