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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.
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(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.
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:27AM
Ooooh, is it cherrypicking season again? Look ma, I found one [cnn.com]!
(Score: 2, Funny) by edIII on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:05PM (4 children)
Interesting how a specific shock raises moral awareness. I would suggest then we use cattle prods on everyone in DC.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:48PM (2 children)
Orange Anus? Cheetos are not meant to be suppositories.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:19PM
I assumed he watched that South Park episode and eats with his butt. To be fair, it's hard to tell the difference between his face and anus when he gets the rhetoric really going :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:22PM
Presume edIII was putting them in his mouth, it's just a matter of where his head is at.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 04 2018, @11:59AM
Are we really coming back to ECT [mayoclinic.org]? I thought that Jack Nicholson [imdb.com] managed to kill that one in the court of public opinion - right down there with flogging and waterboarding...
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bitstream on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:23PM (7 children)
If it's possible to reduce people's intentions in any way. Then the government/corporations would like to quash any rebellion the same way..
1984, one bit by bit closer into your bitstream.
But there is another help for PTSD etc. Use Beta blockers [mentalhelp.net] this way:
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Aegis on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:51PM (3 children)
If it's possible to reduce people's intentions in any way. Then the government/corporations would like to quash any rebellion the same way..
1984, one bit by bit closer into your bitstream.
We should definitely repeal the ruling that says the government isn't allowed to force someone to undergo a medical procedure then, eh?
Republicans, ushering in 1984 since 1984!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:30PM (1 child)
Pretty sure our dystopian reality today was a bipartisan effort. Republicans took the lead on some aspects, Democrats on others.
The Patriot Act and DMCA shit was the real downturn for freedom in the US. Sadly the majority of people did not see a reduction in their personal daily freedoms so the outrage didn't really go anywhere.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:46AM
You mean greed and trying to remain in power are two things both sides can agree on? Imagine that.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:15AM
The deeper levels of government will get their way if the science is workable.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:22AM (2 children)
Since the part of the brain stimulated provides impulse control, the corporations won't want to go anywhere near it. It would render advertising less effective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:06AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:03PM
Why do you think Xanax, Wellbutrin, Prozac et. al. are so popular? Zero critical thought control of impulse spending, don't worry about later: be happy now.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by CCTalbert on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:44PM (1 child)
I can't remember the name of the book now (somebody please let me know if you know it!)
The story goes that they implant electrodes in a man prone to violent outbursts... a computer monitors him and when he becomes angry it activates a mild pleasure stimulation to calm him down.
What happens is after a while his brain trains itself to become angry to trigger the stimulation.... these angry/stimulate events then increase in frequency until it hit a limit and the computer resets- at which time he'd rampage and kill. Lather, rinse, repeat, as the saying goes.
If I remember right this occurred some time after he'd been released as "cured".
Whacky fun....
(Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:28PM
You're most likely referring to The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:59PM (5 children)
I don't see people willingly having something implanted into their skull for the purpose of giving someone else control over their emotions. We need to brainstorm people! Tying it to iPhone XII surely won't be enough. Can we require it for unemployment and welfare applications? And then force everyone out of a job with a market crash? How about requiring it for servicemen? Requirement for felons? How can we slowly creep the install base to entire population? We need ideas!
(Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:25PM (3 children)
Ever heard of Facebook ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:35PM (2 children)
No, what is it and what's the connection?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:17AM (1 child)
It's a global emotions control platform, dedicated to bringing you down while reminding you that you could buy things to feel better.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:08PM
Amazon: happiness in a box.
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:28AM
Fortunately, this isn't an implant. tDCS = TRANSCRANIAL direct current stimulation. So electrodes and saline paste, no drilling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:35PM
-- Professor Hathaway
(Score: 2) by J_Darnley on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:41PM (2 children)
Electroshock therapy does work after all? Mike Pence will be pleased to hear it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:25AM
Fry him, next Lou Reed right there
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:02AM
Electroshock therapy works very well for some things. No idea about Mike Pence and how he has anything to do with this.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:07AM
They missed an obvious placebo problem where the victims didn't get tested for non-violent passivity. Like how would you like to go for a nice jog?
Surely, a twelve pack of beer would mellow out most people making them less likely to commit an assault, I mean, I'm pretty chill, but also generally make them more passive into not wanting to do much of anything other than maybe watch TV or scroll social media endlessly or shitpost on SN all evening.
I'm just saying a general tranquilizing paralytic effect might be whats going on, not a specific behavior.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:13AM
We understand the science behind Ol' Sparky!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sparky [wikipedia.org]
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:02AM
as long as the voltage is high enough
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:39AM
Tasering perps in the face is now considered to be a medical electro-shock stimulation therapy which may help reduce their violent tendencies. As such, it is a billable health service.
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:30PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:04PM
Its 'for the kids', of course.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @10:27AM
Here I was thinking it was an article about cranial stimulation, and instead it's Griefergrunt, the polycells and SWJ's again.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 09 2018, @12:32AM
What's wrong with a little ultra-violence?
"I'm singing in the rain...."
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --