Comments on: Bad riot neuroscience: cite the power http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/28/bad-riot-neuroscience-cite-the-power/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Should humanists follow neuroscience? | cradledincaricature http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/28/bad-riot-neuroscience-cite-the-power/#comment-24416 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:48:41 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19442#comment-24416 [...] offers a useful starting point for anyone who has a natural caution for ‘SCIENTISTS FIND PART OF BRIAN WHICH MAKES PEOPLE RIOT!!’ headlines. Provocative, accessible, and exhaustive Tallis two-pronged attack on ‘Neuromania’ [...]

]]> By: Jon Brock http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/28/bad-riot-neuroscience-cite-the-power/#comment-21307 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:41:39 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19442#comment-21307 “The reason why some men are more impulsive, act aggressively, drink and take drugs could lie in the fact that they have lower levels of a naturally occurring substance in a specific part of their brain, University research has uncovered.”

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/gaba-link-to-impulsive-males-7150.html

That’s the press release from Cardiff Uni for a paper with two studies (N=12 and N=13) of Cardiff University subjects filling out questionnaires and doing a bunch of cognitive tests.

It’s a really interesting study and article, but before getting so outraged at misinterpretation and exaggeration in the media, I think the researchers should look closer to home.

]]> By: sokun http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/28/bad-riot-neuroscience-cite-the-power/#comment-21304 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:52:08 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19442#comment-21304 Great post, i think the rioting wasn’t a result of brain chemicals but because the people were bad by nature. They have a habit of doing bad things and there is nothing wrong with their brains.

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