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The Alcohol Blackout

The Alcohol Blackout

Exposé exploring the mechanisms of ethyl alcohol induced memory lapses from a neuroscientific and legal perspective.

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Mise en place

Mise en place

Solving any complex problem, we naturally look for patterns to help simplify matters. Patterns of occurrence are suggestive of predictability in an otherwise messy ‘Where’s Waldo’ world. But how do we isolate and order factors to make solutions easier to find? Hint: size matters.

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Consciousness Squared

Consciousness Squared

Let me reveal a secret: brain surgery is, in theory, actually pretty straight-forwardly simple. Being pragmatic, the brain has no more cachet than any other bodily organ. Yet the brain represents a synergy that is more than the sum of its parts.

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Architectural Design & Murder

Architectural Design & Murder

Imagine your own home. Whether you live in a rural log cabin, chalet, city row house, sleek modern, Tudor style, Victorian, A-frame, ranch bungalow, trailer park, lighthouse, saltshaker or lofty apartment, you know that form follows function. What about your yard and/or surrounding landscape? Natural, native elements are inherent to architectural design, as reflected by the interior. By extrapolation, architectural design also incorporates behavior. And crime.

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Detecting Deception

Detecting Deception

Can you detect a lie? Adjudicators of the law might question whether suspects, witnesses and/or victims are lying or accurately recalling the truth. While perceptional interpretations necessarily vary somewhat, there is only one truth that is reality. The brain is the cardinal transgressor in the commission of a crime, prescient to the realistic accounting of actions and observations.

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Forensic Neurobiology Underlying Violent Criminal Behavior

Forensic Neurobiology Underlying Violent Criminal Behavior

Abstract: Violent criminal behavior may be a sequela of functionally and structurally compromised prefrontal and corticolimbic cortices. These anatomically distinct yet functionally integrated regions of the human brain confer qualities of moral sensibility and...

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Experimental Shift

Experimental Shift

Let’s think about the math behind examining microscopic stuff. Shifting and rescaling how we think. Can you imagine thinking like a pathogen?

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