Sunday, April 28, 2013

Slow Saturday Special: Testing Tsarnaev's Brain

He was born a terrorist!

"Testing the brain of Tamerlan Tsarnaev; Could the biology of violent behavior have played a role in the bombings?" by Michael Craig Miller  |   April 27, 2013

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev probably never imagined leaving his brain to science. But we should suggest the idea to whomever has custody of his remains. Neuroscientists should be given the chance to examine his brain closely....

No one knows?

Since the Marathon bombings, we have been reading reports of the radicalization of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two bombing suspects. But we have also read reports of his anger and intensity. He had attracted local attention as a boxer and was a martial arts enthusiast. A local imam has described angry disruptions at a Cambridge mosque. In 2009, Tsarnaev faced domestic violence charges that were later dismissed. 

I'm sure I've covered all that crapola below in my Marathon Bombing file. A jury found him innocent, and only someone trying to call attention to themselves stands up and starts yelling in mosque. The repetitive propaganda is getting stale.

Another news report has the community wondering whether Tsarnaev had a hand in the 2011 murder of three men in Waltham, one of whom he had called his “best friend.”

Related: Official Evidence Proves Boston Marathon Bombers Innocent 

And don't you mind that missing dead man.

We are hungry for details that could explain why two young men would be driven to maim and kill.

Did they put firecrackers up frog's butts like George Bush?

But a string of reports do not make a coherent explanation. Sensible people will wait months and years for a reliable account to emerge.

Yeah, right. Wait until the government and mouthpiece media have connected a good cover story. Maybe you ought to have your head examined.

The driving narrative, the one garnering the most national attention, is about radicalization and the influence of an alien culture set on terrorizing us....

I know what you mean:

Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media

What, wrong narrative?

Getting less attention is the biology of violent behavior....

So yes, let’s study Tsarnaev’s brain.

Dr. Robert Cantu and Dr. Robert Stern of Boston University’s Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy have already expressed their interest in examining it. Tsarnaev’s high-level participation in boxing may have exposed him to multiple head knocks. In other words, he may have endured repetitive head injury and developed the brain disease that BU’s experts have studied in football players and other athletes.

Wow, FOOTBALL PLAYERS can become TERRORISTS, and we have seen INCIDENTS of GUN VIOLENCE with them, too! 

We MUST, we MUST -- for the SAKE of OUR CHILDREN -- BAN FOOTBALL!! 

Related: Sunday Globe Special: Field of Dreams 

I was wondering where they were getting all this.

We are not likely to agree about the meaning of what is found in the brain of the suspected bomber. The pathologist who discovered Charles Whitman’s tumor said it was not related to his violent tear. He called Whitman a psychopath of the worst kind. Cantu and Stern point out that, even if Tsarnaev shows evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or some other pathology, it would not necessarily have been the cause of Tsarnaev’s premeditated, violent behavior.

But where does psychopathy come from if not the brain? The brain is, after all, the mediator of all thought and behavior. And this suspect’s brain may teach us a small but important bit about the biology of violence.

So our local experts should get the chance to study Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s brain. And they should study it as closely as our forensic experts have studied a few blocks along Boylston Street.

Dr. Michael Craig Miller is former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter and a psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Oh, wow. Where they held the younger brother until moving him into military custody.

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Can someone test their brains?