Passion Project: Violence by https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk What causes humans to act violent to other species? en-us 2019-01-25 17:27:32 UTC 2025-12-16 12:57:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Removelove.png Future Goals 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324420462
  • Anonymous survey on abuse/animal abuse
    • ]]>     2019-01-25 17:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324420462     R. Douglas Fields Ph.D 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324422960 “...homicide is the third to 5th most common cause of death in all age brackets between 1-44 years. “
    Nine out of ten people in prison for violent crime are men. Males die from homicide at three times the rate of women. When the victim is a spouse or intimate partner women are murdered at 3.3 times the rate of men. Males commit suicide at four times the rate of females.
    We have neural circuits of rage and violence because we need them. As a species we needed deadly violence to obtain food, to protect ourselves, our family, our group, and unfortunately we still need them today.
    These circuits of aggression are part of the brain’s threat detection mechanism embedded deep in the unconscious region of the brain where sex, thirst, and feeding are also controlled.
    Each of these violent acts can be understood as specific behaviors that are controlled, as are all behaviors, by specific circuits in the brain activated by specific triggers.
    Most of the time the neural circuits of aggression are life-saving,but sometimes they misfire and violence explodes inappropriately
    we see the human brain struggling to cope with an environment it was never designed to confront




    ]]>     2019-01-25 17:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324422960     Marie Ellis 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324431037 Aggression is all in the mind - specifically, the hypothalamus
    the area of the mammalian brain that controls body temperature, hunger and sleep.
    conducted in mice,
    sudden, violent behavior in male mice was associated with changes in a brain structure called the lateral septum.
    the researchers trained male mice to attack weaker ones. The team then observed how aggressively the male mice tried to get access to and harass other mice.
    past studies have linked aggressive behavior to the hypothalamus, the latest study looked specifically at the ventrolateral part of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvl),
    nerve cell activity in the VMHvl peaked just before the mice poked their noses through the holes, and this occurred even when the hostile mice could not smell or see the victim mice.
    nerve cell activity in the VMHvl increased ten-fold during the first moments after the victim mice appeared.
    genetically stopping VMHvl activity brought a halt to almost all of the aggressive motivations in the mice, but it did not stop other learned behaviors,
    targeting the VMHvl in the human brain in order to stop aggression is "only a distant possibility, 
    ventrolateral part of the ventromedial hypothalamus 



    ]]>     2019-01-25 17:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324431037     24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324440047 http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_03/a_03_cr/a_03_cr_que/a_03_cr_que_1a.jpg]]> 2019-01-25 18:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/324440047 https://www.thelastchancesanctuary.com/forms/helpstopanimalcruelty.pdf 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/331832763 hurt animals because they don't think about or realize what they are doing.
    cruel types of discipline
    don't pay attention. For example, someone might forget to give their cat water for a few days or leave their dog in a car on a hot day
    forget or don't care enough
    some people hurt animals even though they think they're helping them
    hurt animals because they aren't thinking, or because they can't stand up to their friends and peer pressure. The ones who are aren't really thinking might be mad at someone else (like their parents) and kick their pet dog because they can't kick their parents. Or they may think it's fun to watch an animal run away scared
    enjoy hurting things, or because it makes them feel powerful
    would hurt other people
    because animals are more helpless than people.
    want to have control 
    may hurt the animal to control another person.
    psychological problems
    probably born with their problems, but others can get their problems from brain damage, poisonous environments, or by being treated badly themselves.]]>     2019-02-15 17:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/331832763     24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/331837605 Neural circuits
    Threat detection mechanism
    Hypothalamus
    Lateral septum
    Ventrolateral part of ventromedial hypothalamus. VMHvl

    ]]>     2019-02-15 17:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/331837605     Video 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349013449 Showing survey (at Wal-Mart) 
    "Violence is caused by...
    Pics off abuse/ neglect
    Statistics


    ]]>     2019-04-05 17:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349013449     https://ncadv.org/home 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349016415 On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States
    1 in 10 women have been raped
    1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence
    homicides found that 20% of victims were not the intimate partners ]]>     2019-04-05 17:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349016415     https://centerforfamilyjustice.org/ 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349018890 30 to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children 
     in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they reach 18; (Department of Justice)
    Approximately 70 percent of children that die from abuse are under the age of 4; 
    More than 4 children die each day because of child abuse;
    About 30 percent of abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children,]]>     2019-04-05 17:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349018890     https://www.humanesociety.org/ 24snyder https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349020265 70 million pet dogs and 74.1 million pet cats in the U.S]]> 2019-04-05 17:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/24snyder/9vcuwl7wmplk/wish/349020265