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It was about my youtube posts in general. Anything about early childhood tends to be very personal for people.
The Bomb in the Brain
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It was about my youtube posts in general. Anything about early childhood tends to be very personal for people.
Can't watch the videos, computer chokes. I'm guessing it talks about the effects of child abuse and adult behavior?
Don't know if this is topical or not but there's an episode of Through the Wormhole entitled "can we eliminate evil" you might find interesting. Essentially, sociopaths can be both born and made. There are measurable differences between the brains of violent criminals (primarily in the amygdala) and "normal" people. What's interesting is that if a person with the abnormality in their brain has a "normal" childhood they don't necessarily grow up to be sociopaths.
When I raised animals there was a simple rule of thumb, you don't breed an ill tempered animal, period. You stood a good chance of getting ill tempered offspring. I witnessed this directly with hamsters, of all things. My ex and I had Russian Dwarf Hamsters of a (then) highly unusual color, making them desirable. The female was a good mother, but a total bitch. The male was sweet. Because of the unusual color we let them have pups. EVERY litter they had resulted in 50% of the offspring being biters.
Humans, having more evolved brains, can be born with the native tendency to "bite" but since we do have frontal lobes we can be "taught" what constitutes appropriate behavior
We have the ability to control our impulses if we are given the right tools from a young age.
Nature/nurture is undoubtedly what contributes to child abuse and criminal behavior in general being a family trait. It also explains why perfectly normal families end up with kids who go completely off the rails. Maybe somebody's great-great-grandpa was a rapist and murderer and that latent gene popped up.
Don't know if this is topical or not but there's an episode of Through the Wormhole entitled "can we eliminate evil" you might find interesting. Essentially, sociopaths can be both born and made. There are measurable differences between the brains of violent criminals (primarily in the amygdala) and "normal" people. What's interesting is that if a person with the abnormality in their brain has a "normal" childhood they don't necessarily grow up to be sociopaths.
When I raised animals there was a simple rule of thumb, you don't breed an ill tempered animal, period. You stood a good chance of getting ill tempered offspring. I witnessed this directly with hamsters, of all things. My ex and I had Russian Dwarf Hamsters of a (then) highly unusual color, making them desirable. The female was a good mother, but a total bitch. The male was sweet. Because of the unusual color we let them have pups. EVERY litter they had resulted in 50% of the offspring being biters.
Humans, having more evolved brains, can be born with the native tendency to "bite" but since we do have frontal lobes we can be "taught" what constitutes appropriate behavior
We have the ability to control our impulses if we are given the right tools from a young age.Nature/nurture is undoubtedly what contributes to child abuse and criminal behavior in general being a family trait. It also explains why perfectly normal families end up with kids who go completely off the rails. Maybe somebody's great-great-grandpa was a rapist and murderer and that latent gene popped up.
javaguru
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Can't watch the videos, computer chokes. I'm guessing it talks about the effects of child abuse and adult behavior?
Don't know if this is topical or not but there's an episode of Through the Wormhole entitled "can we eliminate evil" you might find interesting. Essentially, sociopaths can be both born and made. There are measurable differences between the brains of violent criminals (primarily in the amygdala) and "normal" people. What's interesting is that if a person with the abnormality in their brain has a "normal" childhood they don't necessarily grow up to be sociopaths.
When I raised animals there was a simple rule of thumb, you don't breed an ill tempered animal, period. You stood a good chance of getting ill tempered offspring. I witnessed this directly with hamsters, of all things. My ex and I had Russian Dwarf Hamsters of a (then) highly unusual color, making them desirable. The female was a good mother, but a total bitch. The male was sweet. Because of the unusual color we let them have pups. EVERY litter they had resulted in 50% of the offspring being biters.
Humans, having more evolved brains, can be born with the native tendency to "bite" but since we do have frontal lobes we can be "taught" what constitutes appropriate behavior
Nature/nurture is undoubtedly what contributes to child abuse and criminal behavior in general being a family trait. It also explains why perfectly normal families end up with kids who go completely off the rails. Maybe somebody's great-great-grandpa was a rapist and murderer and that latent gene popped up.
I'll give you the cliff notes, violence is nurture and not nature; The correlations are solid.
Can't watch the videos, computer chokes. I'm guessing it talks about the effects of child abuse and adult behavior?
Don't know if this is topical or not but there's an episode of Through the Wormhole entitled "can we eliminate evil" you might find interesting. Essentially, sociopaths can be both born and made. There are measurable differences between the brains of violent criminals (primarily in the amygdala) and "normal" people. What's interesting is that if a person with the abnormality in their brain has a "normal" childhood they don't necessarily grow up to be sociopaths.
When I raised animals there was a simple rule of thumb, you don't breed an ill tempered animal, period. You stood a good chance of getting ill tempered offspring. I witnessed this directly with hamsters, of all things. My ex and I had Russian Dwarf Hamsters of a (then) highly unusual color, making them desirable. The female was a good mother, but a total bitch. The male was sweet. Because of the unusual color we let them have pups. EVERY litter they had resulted in 50% of the offspring being biters.
Humans, having more evolved brains, can be born with the native tendency to "bite" but since we do have frontal lobes we can be "taught" what constitutes appropriate behavior
Nature/nurture is undoubtedly what contributes to child abuse and criminal behavior in general being a family trait. It also explains why perfectly normal families end up with kids who go completely off the rails. Maybe somebody's great-great-grandpa was a rapist and murderer and that latent gene popped up.
You might be interested in seeing Most Evil from the Discovery Channel, it's an evil index research in which they evaluate murders and rate them from 1 to 22 one being self defense murder and 22 being the most twisted serial killers, Charles Whitman killed his wife AND mother, then climbed a tower and shot/killed 12 people and injured 31 yet he only scored 8, when I first saw it I was like WTF!? he should be waaaay hire, well it turns out he had a large tumor pressing against the impulse control area on the brain, also turns out he really didnt know why he was doing what he was but couldnt stop himself, he left notes and even requested his body be autopsied for findings on his behavior, fascinating, for me at least
Fascinating to me too, I'm very familiar with that show and know the case you're speaking of. Another cool one is how doctors originally came up with the idea of lobotomies.You might be interested in seeing Most Evil from the Discovery Channel, it's an evil index research in which they evaluate murders and rate them from 1 to 22 one being self defense murder and 22 being the most twisted serial killers, Charles Whitman killed his wife AND mother, then climbed a tower and shot/killed 12 people and injured 31 yet he only scored 8, when I first saw it I was like WTF!? he should be waaaay hire, well it turns out he had a large tumor pressing against the impulse control area on the brain, also turns out he really didnt know why he was doing what he was but couldnt stop himself, he left notes and even requested his body be autopsied for findings on his behavior, fascinating, for me at least
Java, no, it isn't, you can't make that kind of statement. Yes, you can beat violence into children, but you can also have a perfectly loving childhood and the violence comes out of nowhere and you look into ancestry and there is violence. Look at their brains via FMRI and there are problems with the centers that control impulse. Contrary wise you can have a violent childhood and still grow up to be a basically decent person.
In fact, plenty of people who had horribly abusive childhoods grow up to help others even more. Watch the show I mentioned.
You might be interested in seeing Most Evil from the Discovery Channel, it's an evil index research in which they evaluate murders and rate them from 1 to 22 one being self defense murder and 22 being the most twisted serial killers, Charles Whitman killed his wife AND mother, then climbed a tower and shot/killed 12 people and injured 31 yet he only scored 8, when I first saw it I was like WTF!? he should be waaaay hire, well it turns out he had a large tumor pressing against the impulse control area on the brain, also turns out he really didnt know why he was doing what he was but couldnt stop himself, he left notes and even requested his body be autopsied for findings on his behavior, fascinating, for me at least
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