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Residents of Ciudad Juárez, home of the highest murder rate in Mexico, now have some relief from the violence through a virtual reality therapy program similar to the one used to treat Iraq war soliders who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. 
GPNoticias 's curator insight,
August 31, 2023 1:05 PM
El artículo habla sobre la aplicación de la realidad virtual para la atención de personas afectadas por la violencia en la ciudad fronteriza Juárez.
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Two years ago, at a meeting on science and education, experts challenged video game manufacturers to develop games that emphasize kindness and compassion instead of violence and aggression.
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To diffuse ethnic conflicts and improve humanitarian missions, the Pentagon is teaming up with several research institutions to better understand the neuroscience of violence.
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Childhood exposure to lead dust has been linked to lasting physical and behavioral effects, and now lead dust from vehicles using leaded gasoline has been linked to instances of aggravated assault two decades after exposure, according to researchers.
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All the evidence seems to suggest that people are getting increasingly violent and xenophobic. Or does it? Via Dimitris Agorastos
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In the past few years, the video game industry has grown from a niche market into a major part of mainstream media.
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Children and adolescents are exposed to violent images everyday and the line between reality and fiction is blurred. Now, the consequences of such exposure are becoming evident and recent studies show neurological adaptations and desensitization that lead to aggression and violence in real life.
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(AP) -- It's a startling number: 1 in 4 women surveyed by the government say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends.
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Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown.
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An East Asian human fossil from Maba, China and dated to the late Middle Pleistocene age has provided evidence of interhuman aggression and human induced trauma occurred 126,000 years ago.
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A new study published today in the international journal Addiction demonstrates that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents.
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A healed fracture found on an ancient skull from China may be the oldest documented evidence of violence between humans, a study has shown.
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Children watching non-violent, age appropriate content on TV have fewer sleep-related problems, a new study reports.
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Headshots are a part of many violent videogames but could they actually make you a real-life sniper? Believe it or not, those hours of videogame playing may just improve your shot.
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In this paper, our goal is to (a) survey some of the legal contexts within which violence risk assessment already plays a prominent role, (b) explore whether developments in neuroscience could potentially be used to improve our ability to predict violence, and (c) discuss whether neuropredictive models of violence create any unique legal or moral problems above and beyond the well worn problems already associated with prediction more generally. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Children who have experienced violence might really be older than their years.
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Violence in men can be explained by traditional theories of sexual selection. A new review points to a range of evidence that suggests that high rates of physical aggression and assaults in men are rooted in inter-male competition.
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While everyone's always waxing like Lord Tennyson about nature being "red in tooth and claw," neuroscience and psychology are quietly telling us that we may be innately nicer than we think.
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Mathematical tools pry clandestine information from hidden realm of the Internet...
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According to two University of South Florida psychologists, our manhood is actually a very fragile and precarious commodity. When it’s threatened, we’ll go to extreme lengths to defend it
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Robots have killed on command from human operators, but the number of human deaths from accidental robotic violence seems small compared to the growing numbers of robots in the workplace. Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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In this week's Geeky Science - new research shows that video games DO hurt your child's brain - but it might not be too late!
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An interview with the Harvard psychologist and linguist on violence, language and Twitter.
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From London to the Middle East riots have shaken political stability. Are the answers to be found in human nature?
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