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08/15/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Virtual reality therapy can help improve an offender’s empathy by experiencing victims’ point of view

Can virtual reality help violent individuals who lack emotional recognition improve their perception of emotions? Researchers from the University of Barcelona and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) designed a virtual reality system that may help instill empathy in violent offenders. The system allows men who committed a domestic violence crime to experience […]

02/10/2018 / By Mike Adams

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was on a “sedative-hypnotic” mind-altering psychiatric medication – autopsy report

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was taking mind-altering psychiatric medications at the time he carried out the Mandalay Bay mass shooting, reveal autopsy records obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Amounts of nordiazepam, oxazepam and temazepam, which are consistent with the anti-anxiety drug Valium, were found in his urine, a toxicology report shows,” the Review-Journal […]

07/01/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Same pheromones that trigger sexual attraction in females also found to trigger AGGRESSION in males

When you’re physically attracted to someone, there is this indefinable element to your interactions that many people simply chalk up to “chemistry.” Scientists have long tried to understand the precise mechanism of this interaction, and now a new study is helping shed some light on the way that pheromones could enhance human sexual behavior. The […]

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