Note: After the tragic Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine’s Day, 2018, there are facts that need to be considered about these killers seeking the limelight and celebrity status and the possible causes behind the morbid motivations that animate them. In the wake of the most recent shootings in the Texas Walmart and the […]
The common man could sense that a change was passing over the nation, that something in the soul of the people was dying, that a pristine state of simplicity, likened to that of our first parents, was being destroyed by the forces of an active evil.”[1] On July 7th a sniper gunned down five police
The Dallas shooting of police officers: What it really means by Russell L. Blaylock, MD Read More »
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 Aquinas Violence is a global problem, which in the context of this article (interpersonal violence), is intentional force against another person or persons with the potential to
Potentially lethal force may require defensive deadly force by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
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 study the brain and human behavior. The frontal lobe syndrome was avidly studied. Frontal lobotomy was developed in the 1930s for the treatment of mental
