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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I had this horrible thought the other day...
... think about the Middle East. Think as an example of ISIS and similar groups running through village after village raping away, selling girls as slaves to other similar people and so on. What genes and behavioral traits are being spread? More than anything, they are actively, selectively breeding violent psychopaths. Psychopathic personality traits (and the associated brain dysfunction) have proven unfortunately, to be highly heritable.
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yep, dysfunction passed on generation by generation on a mass scale - as much as I believe in neuroscience there still remains a large component of enviromental factors. One of the studies I read on depression and anxiety stated that they think this epigenetic re-programming is about 40% of the story behind mood disorders/illness.
Early infancy/childhood experiences, when the brain is at it's most rapid development, accounts for a lot but again those experiences are permanently altering the brain, laying the groundwork for trouble later in life. It may explain why some soldiers go on to develop PTSD while others who've been through the same experiences go on and lead normal lives. It's all so complicated, but for me just the research in the past 10 years has been revolutionary.
So in some ways Freud was on the right track, he just had little knowledge of the brain's workings. And why his 'cure', psychoanalysis, had poor results with patients.