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- Title: Criminal Behavior and the Ethics of Biological Intervention.
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 333 KB
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Humanity's long history of attempting to understand how the brain is structured and functions is a mixture of painstaking observations, brilliant insights, and spectacular errors. Knowledge in this area developed sporadically from antiquity through the eighteenth century, during which time it still had to compete with the notion that a nonmaterial mind-soul was the primary source of most human mental phenomena. This nonmaterial cause of human behavior, though it played a gradually decreasing role in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, still acted to preclude a complete understanding of the brain-behavior relationship. The most dramatic increases in our neurological understanding came in the late twentieth century with the development of technologies that allowed researchers to view the activity of the human brain while the subject was awake and carrying out various actions. Furthermore, we have learned that during the first few years of life the basic brain material produced, in keeping with instructions from the genes, refashions itself and its connections according to what it encounters in its environment. During infancy, excess unused nerve cells die off and those that are frequently used develop networks with other cells.
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