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 MANAGEMENT OF JUSTICE : NEUROSCIENTIFIC BASIS OF CRIME The opposite of poverty is not wealth ,it is justice-Bryan stevenson Conflict is inevitable- Combat is optional-Unknown There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for his greed-Mahatma Gandhi Neuroscience of social behaviour In primate societies there is a dominant male who has the lions share of food and sex. The rest of males and females have a subservient position. Groups of primates usually attack other groups for territorial and resource dominance.    During evolution of human societies the group dynamics ( game theory of power games)maintained by asymmetric power leading to a hierarchical society changed to an egalitarian group. Initially the instinct of altruism arose leading to sharing of food in the group. This allowed hunting as a group endeavour. Later it led to reciprocal exchange of favours . The second instinct  was related to parental attachment to the child along with strong sexual ...
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 BIOLOGY :MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS Mechanism of normal personality Each human behaves differently ,has a unique personality. However it is wrong to consider animals as without unique behaviour. This is so because though animals lack speech and abstract thinking ,behaviour is determined in the brain by very ancient neural networks present in all higher animals.    The Amygdala is an ancient network present in all mammals. It along with a few other centres in striatum determine all emotion and motivation behaviour.Emotions consist of detection neurons which detect contexts and associate them with favourable or unfavourable actions which are programmed.. Thus fear producing contexts need to be conditioned to painfull stimuli and must be aligned with withdrawal action. This conditioning circuit exists in amygdala at birth but the contexts are gradually built up by perception action cycles. Apart from fear animals have emotions of rage/ anger,frustration,exploration wher...