Violence, mental illness, and the brain — A brief history of psychosurgery:...
Abstract — Psychosurgery was developed early in human prehistory (trephination) as a need perhaps to alter aberrant behavior and treat mental illness. The “American Crowbar Case" provided an impetus to...
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Abstract — Knowledge of neuroscience flourished during and in the wake of the era of frontal lobotomy, as a byproduct of psychosurgery in the late 1930s and 1940s, revealing fascinating neural pathways...
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Abstract — In the final installment to this three-part, essay-editorial on psychosurgery, we relate the history of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in humans and glimpse the phenomenal body of work...
View ArticleOn Psychosurgery and Mind Control — A Review of Miguel Faria's "Violence,...
In his three-part series on psychosurgery in America entitled "Violence, Mental Illness and the Brain," my friend, Dr. Miguel Faria, has written one of the best published summaries on the history of...
View ArticleCurriculum Vitae for Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.
CURRICULUM VITAEMIGUEL A. FARIA, JR., M.D.BORN: September 30, 1952 in Sancti Spiritus, CubaU.S. CITIZEN: 1971FLUENT IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH: SpanishEDUCATION:* Eau Claire High School, Columbia,...
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Medical Ethics of Hippocrates or Population-Based Bioethics — A Symposium...
This interview resulted in the May 14, 2014 article, "U.S. Experts urge focus on ethics in brain research" by Kerry Sheridan, AFP Correspondent. The article was distributed through the NewsCred...
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The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to...
Abstract— In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama decreed the creation of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing...
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Longevity and compression of morbidity from a neuroscience perspective: Do we...
Abstract— The search for longevity, if not for immortality itself, has been as old as recorded history. The great strides made in the standard of living and the advances in scientific medicine, have...
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Glyphosate, neurological diseases — and the scientific method
We must be careful not to rush to label glyphosate as excessively toxic to humans because when used properly and in proper quantities it is probably no more dangerous and toxic than other effective...
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A book review of The Neuropsychiatry of Limbic and Subcortical Disorders
The material compiled in this slim but compact tome, The Neuropsychiatry of Limbis and Subcortical Disorders, was originally published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience in...
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Potentially lethal force may require defensive deadly force
The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one's life;and the killing of the aggressor...The one is intended, the other is not.— Saint Thomas Aquinasread more
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The Unarmed Assailant—A Deadly Threat by Robert A. Margulies, MD, MPH
A unifying principle of American law governing the defensive use of deadly force is that a victim may use such force when an attacker threatens violence capable of causing death or grave bodily harm....
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Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery:...
Abstract — In the final installment to this three-part, essay-editorial on psychosurgery, we relate the history of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in humans and glimpse the phenomenal body of work...
View ArticleOn Psychosurgery and Mind Control — A Review of Miguel Faria's "Violence,...
In his three-part series on psychosurgery in America entitled "Violence, Mental Illness and the Brain," my friend, Dr. Miguel Faria, has written one of the best published summaries on the history of...
View ArticleCurriculum Vitae for Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.
CURRICULUM VITAEMIGUEL A. FARIA, JR., M.D.BORN: September 30, 1952 in Sancti Spiritus, CubaU.S. CITIZEN: 1971FLUENT IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH: SpanishEDUCATION:* Eau Claire High School, Columbia,...
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Medical Ethics of Hippocrates or Population-Based Bioethics — A Symposium...
This interview resulted in the May 14, 2014 article, "U.S. Experts urge focus on ethics in brain research" by Kerry Sheridan, AFP Correspondent. The article was distributed through the NewsCred...
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The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to...
Abstract— In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama decreed the creation of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing...
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Longevity and compression of morbidity from a neuroscience perspective: Do we...
Abstract— The search for longevity, if not for immortality itself, has been as old as recorded history. The great strides made in the standard of living and the advances in scientific medicine, have...
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Glyphosate, neurological diseases — and the scientific method
We must be careful not to rush to label glyphosate as excessively toxic to humans because when used properly and in proper quantities it is probably no more dangerous and toxic than other effective...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A book review of The Neuropsychiatry of Limbic and Subcortical Disorders
The material compiled in this slim but compact tome, The Neuropsychiatry of Limbic and Subcortical Disorders, was originally published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience in...
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