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The Neuroscience of Terrorism – Nafees Hamid

What can brain scans of radicalized jihadists tell us about how they react to what they perceive as attacks on their sacred values? In episode 58, we’re joined by Nafees Hamid from the Artis International who discusses his open access article “Neuroimaging ‘will to fight’ for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate,” which was published on June 12, 2019 in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

 
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Childhood trauma and its consequences

Meta-analysis finds that over 1/3 of American children have had two or more substantial adverse childhood experiences, compared to fewer than 1 out of 5 children in Europe.

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The day the dinos died

Team of Earth scientists analyze 66 million year old crater in Yucatan to propose what unfolded during the first day of the last major mass extinction event.

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Seismic reactivation

Prior guest Folarin Kolawole has a new paper out in Nature Geoscience. After checking out his article on Oklahoma's susceptibility to seismic reactivation, give a listen to his conversation with us.

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Risky decisions from idle brains

Variations in brain activity when a person is idle may help explain why people are sometimes inconsistent, irrational, and engage in risky behavior.

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Bad decisions on empty stomachs

When hungry, people may tend to be impatient and more likely to settle for a small reward unrelated to food that arrives sooner, rather than delaying gratification for a larger one promised at a later date.

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Using "time outs" for disciplining kids

Disciplining children through "time outs" doesn't increase their anxiety or aggressive behavior, nor parents' relationships with them, though physical punishment does.

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Did earaches kill Neanderthals off?

Based on finding that Neanderthals appear to have had ear canals similarly shaped to that of today's infants, researchers suggest that the hominids may have died off due to bacterial infections.

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