Brain Research and Social Implications

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-38
Author(s):  
RAYMOND P. KESNER
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research ◽  
Social Implications

Social Implications of the “Dyscontrol Syndrome”

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Girgis
Keyword(s):  
Brain Function ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Experimental Brain Research ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Brain Pathology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Triggering Mechanisms

The recent literature contains numerous publications which have tried to stimulate a new and biologically oriented approach to the problem of violence. Experimental brain research indicates that biologically important predatory and aggression responses have multiple representations in the nervous system. However, knowledge gained so far concerning emotional brain function in violent persons with brain disease, or from experimental research, can only infrequently be applied to combat the violence-triggering mechanisms in the brains of the non-diseased. In the hope of determining the neurological basis of aggression, the present author studied the brains of forty-two patients whose clinical history indicated definite aggressive behaviour. Results are reported and discussed. It is also the aim of this paper to discuss the social implications of the surgical treatment of patients with a “dyscontrol syndrome” whose investigations do not reveal definite evidence of “hard” signs and symptoms of brain pathology.

Disciplines of the Neuro

Being Brains ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Vidal ◽  
Francisco Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Education Law ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Political Preference ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Brain

This chapter considers the emergence, since the 1990s, of fields whose names often combine the suffix neuro with the name of one of the human and social sciences, from anthropology and art history to education, law and theology. These “disciplines of the neuro” reframe the human sciences and their corresponding subjects on the basis of knowledge about the brain. Driven by the availability of imaging technologies, they look for neural correlates of behaviors and mental processes. Brain imaging studies since the early 1990s have increasingly dealt with topics of potential ethical, legal and social implications, such as attitudes, cooperation and competition, violence, political preference or religious experience. The media, both popular and specialized, has given much room to these new fields, thus underlining how rapidly neuroscientific knowledge spreads beyond the confines of brain research proper into different areas of life and culture as a whole. We provide an overview of these fields, as well as a more focused examination of neuroaesthetics and the “neurodisciplines” of culture. Though recurrently presented as a way of solving centuries-old riddles and offering solutions to supposed crises in the humanities, these new fields apply methods that are intrinsically inadequate to the objects and phenomena they claim to address.

Teachers' Stereotypes of Children Who Wear Hearing Aids

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cletus G. Fisher ◽  
Kenneth Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Child ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Elementary School Child ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Service Training

Classroom teachers were asked to list the traits they felt were characteristic of the elementary school child who wears a hearing aid. These listings were evaluated according to the desirability of the traits and were studied regarding frequency of occurrence, desirability, and educational, emotional, and social implications. The results of the groupings are discussed in terms of pre-service and in-service training.

Famine in China, 1959-61. Demographic and Social Implications

1990 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lavely
Keyword(s):  
Social Implications

Review of Methods in brain research.

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 599-599
Author(s):  
RICHARD F. THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research

New Imaging Center Enhances NIDA's Brain Research

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Swan
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research ◽  
Imaging Center

Sperry Wins Nobel Prize for Split Brain Research

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Split Brain

Mental health meeting on brain research sparks optimism

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Pines
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Brain Research

A new tool for brain research

1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Roy John
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research
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