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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2008 | video, neuroscience, stress, steroid, hippocampus, brain, violence, primate, science, research, medicine
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    Glucocorticoids are steroids produced by bodies at times of stress. Prolonged stress(and exposure to the steroids) damages hippocampus neurons. PTSD and depression(ie chronic stress) can cause permanent damage to the hippocampus, slow neurogenesis and affect memory.

    From studies of baboon clans, this steroid level-
    (a) is generally low in high ranking males and high in low ranking males. They are high for high-ranking males when the societal hierarchy is under threat.
    (b) is high when the personal threat is unpredictable and arbitrary.
    (c) is higher when a baboon is unable to distinguish a real threat from a non-threat.
    (d) is lower where baboons have a social outlet for anger.
    (e) is lower when they are sociable and not alone.

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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 15 2008 | law, Florida, news, violence, Homeless Persons, teenage
    Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame

    Quoted:In Fort Lauderdale a group of teenagers captured national attention in 2006 when a surveillance camera caught one laughing as he beat a homeless man with a baseball bat. The teenagers attacked three homeless men that night and face a murder trial in one man’s death. A year later in Daytona Beach, a 17-year-old and two 10-year-olds attacked a homeless Army veteran. One 10-year-old dropped a cement block on the man’s face, the police said.

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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2007 | news, saudi arabia, violence, women, sharia, wahabbism
    Saudi Rape Case Spurs Calls for Reform

    Quoted: The case of a 20-year-old woman who was sentenced to be lashed after pressing charges against seven men who raped her and a male companion has provoked a rare and angry public debate in Saudi Arabia, leading to renewed calls for reform of the Saudi judicial system.

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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2007 | business, gangs, Nigeria, violence, oil, politics, Africa
    Gangs Terrorize Nigeria’s Vital Oil Region

    Quoted: The violence that has rocked the Niger Delta in recent years has been aimed largely at foreign oil companies, their expatriate workers and the police officers and soldiers whose job it is to protect them. Hundreds of kidnappings, pipeline bombings and attacks on flow stations and army barracks have occurred in the past two years alone. But these days the guns have turned inward,

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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 12 2007 | violence, society, South America
    Ritual Fades Into Blur of Drinking and Fighting

    Quoted: Several political organizations in Bolivia are pushing to preserve endangered traditions like Tinku, an ancient ritual once widespread throughout the Andean world.

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