Scientists Disrupt Moral Reasoning With Magnets To The Skull: "Want to make somebody lose her belief that harming somebody else is wrong? All you have to do is hold a special magnet up to her head in the right place.
Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation - in which magnets are used to disrupt neural activity in specific parts of the brain - scientists managed to 'turn off' people's moral centers. According to a release from PNAS, which published results of the study yesterday:"
3 comments:
Didn't Ted Bundy have a magnetic personality?
Remember the tongue frozen on the steel post in Christmas Story? I can't get past this double-wide trailer.
Is there any positive application for this discovery?
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