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Robert Sapolsky

  • Svetlana Rodriguez Arciniegashas quotedlast year
    It can be far more than a mere academic matter when a scientist thinks that human behavior can be entirely explained from only one perspective.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    liberalization of abortion laws and the demographics of the crime drop showed that when abortions become readily available in an area, rates of crime by young adults decline about twenty years later.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    What majorly predicts a life of crime?
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    Being born to a mother who, if she could, would have chosen that you not be.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    What’s the most basic thing provided by a mother?
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    Knowing that she is happy that you exist.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    Michael Meaney of McGill University has shown how early-life stress permanently blunts the ability of the brain to rein in glucocorticoid secretion.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    marinating the brain in excess glucocorticoids, particularly during development, adversely effects cognition, impulse control, empathy, and so on.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    abused children who develop PTSD have decreased volume of the hippocampus in adulthood.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    The connection between childhood adversity and frontocortical maturation pertains to childhood poverty.
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