A research letter in the journal Ecologica Montenegrina has been
picked up by the popular media because it represents an unusual
situation: a snake ate a centipede which, once swallowed, proceeded
to eat its way out of the snake.
Here are some popular media accounts:
The website for Wired has an interesting interview with the researcher
Kent Kiehl who has studied psychopaths for 20 years; the interview
is here:
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/psychopath-brains-kiehl/
The interview is partly a shill for Kiehl's new book The Psychopath
Whisperer which is geared
if psychopathy is shown to be associated with specific brain
abnormalities
Cause or effect?
Until causality is proven I'd be wary of any sort of legal action.
On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
The website for Wired has an interesting interview with the researcher
Kent Kiehl
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:34:10 -0700, Paul Brandon wrote:
if psychopathy is shown to be associated with specific brain
abnormalities
Cause or effect?
Well, that is one of the flies in the ointment. The invited inference
is that the brain abnormality causes the observed behavior.
But, as Sir
Did the Romans ever consider crucifixion as cruel and unusual punishment?
Btw,Francis of Assisi,Teresa of Avila,John of the Cross-all saints of the
Catholic
and Padre Pio are all alleged to be stigmatists who experienced Christ's
crucifiixion
wounds intermittently.
How do skeptics like the late
Hi Mike-
I worked as a prison psychologist for ten years and I met (and diagnosed) a
large number of psychopaths. Based on this experience I can tell you that
psychopaths are no more dangerous to prison staff than are other inmates. As a
graduate student I worked with Bob Hare at UBC studying
Mike : I spent a couple of months working with prison inmates as a drug
addiction counselor at Tomoka State prison here in Daytona Beach as a drug
addiction counselor and we had discusion on this.
You may want to check out a bideo titled MINDS TO CRIME,
The Brits have extensive research on
Sometimes I am amazed by the uncritical interpretation of results. Just two
very simple examples when it comes to brain differences and psychopathy:
1) In some widely quoted studies psychopaths were compared with non-offenders.
The control group should rather have consisted not only of
One discussion question I often ask my students is how early do they think
the abnormal wiring of psychopaths could be detected by brain imaging
technology. And then my follow-up question is IF we can predict that
certain brain wiring patterns predict psychopathic behaviors by age 6,what
type of
