Brain's 'Hate Circuit' Identified
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028205658.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2008) =97 People who view pictures of someone
they hate display activity in distinct areas of the brain that,
together, may be thought of as a 'hate circuit', according to new
research by scientists at UCL (University College London).
The study, by Professor Semir Zeki and John Romaya of the Wellcome
Laboratory of Neurobiology at UCL, examined the brain areas that
correlate with the sentiment of hate and shows that the 'hate circuit'
is distinct from those related to emotions such as fear, threat and
danger =96 although it shares a part of the brain associated with
aggression. The circuit is also quite distinct from that associated
with romantic love, though it shares at least two common structures
with it.
On Nov 13, 5:28=A0am, Mark Probert <mark.prob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > What a revelation. Experts have known this for years.
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> You don't need no steeken experts to know this. Just look at a bully
> and they are obviously enjoying it.
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> > > Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others' Pain
> > > November 7, 2008
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> > > FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Bullies may actually enjoy the
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> > > they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests.
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> > > The part of the brain associated with reward lights up when an
> > > aggressive teen watches a video of someone hurting another person,
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> > > not when a non-aggressive youth watches the same clip, according to
> > > the University of Chicago study, published in the currentBiological
> > > Psychology.
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> > > "Aggressive adolescents showed a specific and very strong activation
> > > of the amygdala and ventral striatum (an area that responds to
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> > > rewarded) when watching pain inflicted on others, which suggested
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> > > they enjoyed watching pain," researcher Jean Decety, a professor in
> > > psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago, said in a
> > > university news release. "Unlike the control group, the youth with
> > > conduct disorder did not activate the area of the brain involved in
> > > self-regulation (the medial prefrontal cortex and the
tem****oparietal
> > > junction)."
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> > > The study compared eight 16- to 18-year-old boys with an aggressive
> > > conduct disorder to a group that didn't show unusual signs of
> > > aggression. All participants underwent functional magnetic resonance
> > > imaging (fMRI) while watching videos in which people endured pain
> > > accidentally, such as when a heavy bowl was dropped on their hands,
> > > and intentionally, such as when a person stepped on another's foot.
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> > > More information
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> > > The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about
> > > stopping bullying.
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> > > SOURCE: University of Chicago, news release, Nov. 7, 2008
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