Robert Sapolsky

It can be far more than a mere academic matter when a scientist thinks that human behavior can be entirely explained from only one perspective.

liberalization of abortion laws and the demographics of the crime drop showed that when abortions become readily available in an area, rates of crime by young adults decline about twenty years later.

What majorly predicts a life of crime?

Being born to a mother who, if she could, would have chosen that you not be.

What’s the most basic thing provided by a mother?

Knowing that she is happy that you exist.

Michael Meaney of McGill University has shown how early-life stress permanently blunts the ability of the brain to rein in glucocorticoid secretion.

marinating the brain in excess glucocorticoids, particularly during development, adversely effects cognition, impulse control, empathy, and so on.

abused children who develop PTSD have decreased volume of the hippocampus in adulthood.

The connection between childhood adversity and frontocortical maturation pertains to childhood poverty.