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Conference of Historical Importance: Development Of Violence and
Pleasure in Man. Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA October 10-12, 1969.
Sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, National Institutes of Health; Society For Research In
Child Development; and The Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA Los
Angeles, CA.
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Early Somatosensory Deprivation as an Ontogenetic
Process in the Abnormal Development of the Brain and Behavior
I.E. Goldsmith and J. Moor-Jankowski (Eds.): Medical Primatology, pp. 356-375. S. Karger, Basel, New York 1970 (last modified 2003/11/11).
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Mary Coleman, M.D.: Platelet Serotonin in Disturbed Monkeys and Children
Clinical Proceedings: Children's Hopsital Washington, D.C., Volume 27, July/August 1971, Number 7, p. 187-194 (last modified 2003/11/11).
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Robert G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D.: Pleasure and Brain Activity in Man. Deep and Surface Electroencephalograms During Orgasm
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 154, Number 1 (1972), pp. 3-18. PDF format (6.3 MB) of a grayscale scan, zoom for best quality (last modified 2003/11/11).
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A.J. Berman, D. Berman, and James W. Prescott: The Effect of Cerebellar Lesions on Emotional Behavior in the Rhesus Monkey
Irving S. Cooper, Manuel Riklan, Ray S. Snider (Eds.): The Cerebellum, Epilepsy, and Behavior, pp. 277-284. Plenum Press, New York, 1974. Only available in image form (last modified 2003/11/11).
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William
A. Mason and Gershon Berkson: Effects of Maternal Mobility on the
Development of Rocking and Other Behaviors in Rhesus Monkeys: A Study
with Artificial Mothers
Developmental Psychobiology, 8(3): pp. 197-211 (1975). PDF format (last modified 2004/10/11).
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Clark O. Anderson,
Ann McM. Kenney and William A. Mason: Effects of Maternal Mobility,
Partner, and Endocrine State on Social Responsiveness of Adolescent
Rhesus Monkeys
Developmental Psychobiology, 10(5): pp. 421-434 (1977). PDF format (last modified 2004/12/23).
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William A. Mason and M. D. Kenney: Redirection of Filial Attachments in
Rhesus Monkeys: Dogs as Mother Surrogates
SCIENCE, 22 March 1974, Volume 183, pp. 1209-121.
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Schwarz, Dietrich W.F. and Frederickson, John M.: Rhesus Monkey Vestibular Cortex: A Bimodal Primary Projection Field
SCIENCE, 14 October 1970, Volume 172, p. 280f
Abstract an Comment by James W. Prescott, Ph.D
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Robert
G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D.: Maternal-Social Deprivation and Abnormal Brain
Development: Disorders of Emotional and Social Behavior
In: James W. Prescott, M.S. Read, D.B. Coursin (Eds.): Brain Function
and Malnutrition: Neuropsychological Methods of Assessment. John Wiley,
New York, 1975. Only available in image form (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Somatosensory Deprivation and Its Relationship to the Blind
In: Zofja S. Jastrzembska (Ed.): The Effects of Blindness and Other Impairments on Early Development. The American Foundation for the Blind, New York 1976. PDF format (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Aspects of Human Affectional Development
In: R. Gemme and C.C. Wheeler (Eds.): Progress in Sexology. Proceedings
of the 1976 International Congress of Sexology. Plenum Press, New York,
1977. PDF file, 2.7 MB (last modified 2003/12/28).
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Bernard Saltzberg: The Detection of Intermittent Transient Patterns of Brain Electrical Activity of Unknown Waveshape
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, November 5-9, 1977, p. 93. Only available in image form (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Somatosensory Affectional Deprivation (SAD) Theory of Drug and Alcohol Use
In: Dan J. Lettieri, Ph.D., Mollie Sayers and Hellen Wallenstein Pearson
(Eds.): Theories on Drug Abuse. Selected Contemporary Perspectives. NIDA Research Monograph 30, March 1980, p.286. Published by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Drug Abuse. PDF format (last modified 2003/11/11).
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Bernard Saltzberg: Noninvasive Detection of Deep Brain Spiking Pathology: Implications for Evaluating the Violent Offender
Presented at the National Academy of Science meeting of the International Research Society on Violence and Aggression, 1977. PDF format (last modified 2003/11/11).
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Floeter, M.K. and Greenough, W.T (1979). Cerebellar Plasticity:
Modification of Purkinje Cell Structure by Differential Rearing
in Monkeys. Science 206(12): 227-229.
Documents change in morphology of
cerebellar Purkinje cells in the primate brain consequent
to differences in the social and physical environments during early
development. Limitations of study include small sample size (N = 16
distributed among three groups with large variability in anatomical
measures); short-term rearing conditions (six months)--longer
term rearing conditions would result in enhanced differences; limited
cerebellar measures; and insufficient rearing condition differences
between single and pair reared groups. Feral reared primates are
reared in troops. This writer (JWP) interprets findings supportive of
SSAD theory (SomatoSensory Affectional Deprivation) Click
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Robert
G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D.: Gross Pathology of the Cerebellum in Patients
Diagnosed and Treated as Functional Psychiatric Disorders
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 167, Number 10 (October 1979), pp. 585-591. PDF format of a 1-bit scan, low quality of tomography reproduction (last modified 2003/11/11).
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Heath, Llewellyn and Rouchell: "The Cerebellar Pacemaker for Intractable Behavioral Disorders and Epilepsy: Follow-Up Report"
Biological Psychiatry, Volume 15, Number 2 (1980), pp. 243-256.
(...) The patients who have responded best to the treatment are those
with depression, those with behavioral pathology consequent to epilepsy,
and those with psychotic behavior consequent to structural brain damage.
(...) Twenty-one percent of the patient group displayed structural evidence of cerebellar pathology that was not detected before operation, a finding which suggests that cerebellar damage may induce psychotic behavior.
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Robert G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D. et al.: Cerebellar Vermal Atrophy in Psychiatric Patients
Biological Psychiatry, Volume 17, Number 5 (1982), pp. 569-583. PDF format of a 1-bit scan, low quality of tomography reproduction (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. PRESCOTT, PH.D. (1989): Profiles of Affectionate (Peaceful) v Non-Affectionate (Violent) Tribal Cultures.
The social-behavioral characteristics of these two kinds of cultures in five categories of societal structure and functioning are listed. These characteristics are all statistically significant and are derived from the 400-culture sample of Textor (1967). All 400 cultures were not rated on all characteristics.
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D. (1990): Affectional Bonding for the Prevention of Violent Behaviors: Neurobiological, Psychological and Religious/Spiritual Determinants.
Chapter 6. In: Violent Behavior. Vol 1. Assessment & Intervention. (Hertzberg, L.J., Ostrum, G.F. and Field, J.R., Eds) PMA Publishing Great Neck, New York.
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Sexual Dimorphism in the Developing Human Brain: Evidence from Lateral Skull X-Rays
Presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, November 12-15, 1992 (PDF format, last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The Prescott Report: Part 1
Submitted to Panel: NIH Research On Anti-Social, Aggressive And Violence-Related Behaviors And Their Consequences of the Center For Science Policy Studies, 21 June 1993 (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The Origins of Human Love and Violence
Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal, Volume 10, Number 3: Sp/ring 1996, pp. 143-188 (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The "Bilbray Report"
An American Generation of Suicidal and Homicidal Death of
Children and Youth. Comparing Changes in the Suicidal and Homicidal
Death Rates from 1979-1997/1980 in Specified Age Groups of 1-4 Years;
5-14 Years and 5-24 Years of Age. Report submitted to Congressman Brian
P. Bilbray, March 20 2000. Currently only in Microsoft Word format. (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Breastfeeding Prevents Depression and Suicide
A Preliminary Report. Unpublished. Currently only in ZIP-compressed (7 files) Microsoft Word format (last modified 2003/11/11).
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Review of the Book Mother Nature by Blaffer Hrdy
Comprehensive review of Professor Hrdy's book. Published in edited form as Prescott, J.W.
(2001). Along the Evolutionary Biological Trail. A review and commentary on Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal
Psychology and Health, 15(3):225-232. (last modified ).
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James W.Prescott, Ph.D. (2003). Our Two Cultural Brains:
Neurointegrative and Neurodissociative that are formed by Pain and
Pleasure Life Experiences encoded in the Developing Brain. Click
HERE
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Prescott, J.W. (1992): Consequences of Perinatal Trauma - Genital
Mutilation / Circumcision - and Somatosensory Affectional Nutrurance
Upon the Adult Brain: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Positon
Emission Tomography (PET) Scan Evaluations of Brain Structure and
Function.
Draft Research Proposal that describes the rationale and specific
brain structures for scanning the genital sensory projection fields
of cerebral neocortex and cerebellar cortex and related brain
structures to determine structural and functional (fMRI) deficits
consequent to genital mutilation. (last modified ).
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Cannon, Walter B. (1939): A Law of Denervation. The American Journal
of the Medical Sciences. December. The Hughlings Jackson Memorial
Lecture, delivered at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill
University, Wednesday, April 19, 1939. This essay provides the
neurophsiological foundation for the explanation of the long term
damage that results from early sensory deprivation trauma. Cannon's
Law of Denervation has tragically been overlooked by the
neurobehavioral scientists investigating the consequences of early
sensory deprivation trauma.
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Geoff Der, G David Batty, and Ian J Deary (2006). Effect of breast
feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling
pairs analysis, and meta-analysis. BMJ 2006;
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The above article on the failure to find any connection between
breastfeeding and Intelligence resulted in a number of critical
letters to this study including one by Dr. Prescott. These letters
can be found
HERE or at the above website where Dr. Prescott has reinforced
the necessity for breastfeeding for 2.5 years or longer to optimize
brain-behavioral development.
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2006). Breastfeeding and Intelligence Not
Demonstrated -
Rapid Response. BMJ, October 27, 2006.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7575/0
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Dario Maestriperi, J. Dee Higley, Stephen G. Lindell, Timorthy K. Newman, Kali M. McCormack, Mar M. Sanchez (2006). Early Maternal Rejection Affects the Development of Monoaminergic Systems and Adult Abusive Parenting in Rhesus Macaques. Behavioral Neuroscience 120(5):1017-1024
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This study documents that infant neglect and abuse results in long-term brain neurotransmitter dysfunction, as measured by serotonin metabolite (5-HIAA); dopamine metabolite (HVA); and norepinephrine metabolite (MHPG), which mediate the aberrant emotional-behaviors observed. "Among the cross-fostered females, suggesting that the association between low-5-HIAA concentration and the probability of displaying abusive parenting is not inherited but may be the result of early experience" (pp 1022-1023).
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Dario Maestriperi, Kali M. McCormack ,J., Stephen G. Lindell, J. Dee
Higley , Mar M. Sanchez (2006). Influence of parenting style on the
offspring's behavior and CSF monoamine metabolite levels in
crossfostered and noncrossfostered female rhesus macaques. Behavioral
Brain Research 175:90-95 [
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"We investigated the association between variation in parenting style
and the offspring's behavior and CSF monoamine metabolite (5-HIAA,
HVA, and MHPG) levels in rhesus monkeys...Taken together, these
findings suggest that individual differences in anxiety and
fearfulness in young rhesus monkeys are accounted for, at least in
part, by variation in CSF levels of monoamine metabolites, and that
the development of brain monoamine systems, particularly, serotonin,
can be affected by early exposure to variable maternal
behaviour"..."On the other hand, maternal effects could also be a
mechanism through which behavioral pathologies are transmitted across
generations (e.g. infant abuse;[14]" (p.95).
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James W. Prescott (2007). Letter to Dr. Zerhouni, Director, NIH
objecting to the use of circumcision to control infectious HIV/AIDS
(January 22). The lack of controls for personal genital hygiene was
one of many reasons cited for the false rush to judgement for a
surgical solution to an infections disease problem, a return to the
days when circumcision was proposed as a solution to the many ills
created by masturbation. Click
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2007): BREASTFEEDING BONDING FOR 2.5 YEARS OR LONGER:
PREVENTING DEPRESSION, SUICIDE AND VIOLENCE.
An integrative essay that lists the tribal cultures in the breastfeeding studies; the essential amino acid requirements for infant/child health published
in the Merck Manual; and listing of the 15 most and least violent
States where 82% of States that sanctions violence against children
also had the highest rape rates. Pain and pleasure shape the
developing brain for peace or violence. (last modified ).
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James W. Prescott (2007). A brief overview from several selected
scientific works with supporting data which provides the
neurobiological foundations for a limbic-cerebellar-frontal cortical
system that mediates the SSAD syndrome and its opposite of a
neurointegrative brain that mediates peaceful, egalitarian behaviors.
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http://www.violence.de/archive.shtml#infantmortality-homicide-suicide-breastfeeding
Prescott, J.W. (2009). Infant/Child Mortality Rates Predicts
Homicide and Not Suicide with Increasing Predictability from 1930 to
1960. Studies by this author have documented that 15-25 percent of
homicides can be predicted from the infant mortality rates of the
1940s, whereas as much as 25-75% of homicides can be predicted from
the infant mortality rates of the late fifties and sixties. This is
to say that more and more homicidal factors are involved in our
infant mortality rates of the late 1950s and 1960s than in the 1940s.
(Prescott,1979).
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for documentation.
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PRESCOTT RESEARCH DENIED: 1977-79. The following NICHD internal
Memorandum document a history of conflict with Norman Kretchmer,
M..D., Director, NICHD and Acting Director, CMRC Betty H. Pickett,
PH.D. concerning Dr. Prescott's prior approved research on child
abuse and neglect, developmental origins of violence, infant
mortality and homicide and the failure of culture to support high
maternal-infant/child affectional bonding. Click
HERE
Prescott J.W. (2010) Breastfeeding Prevents Infant Mortality. An
update based upon the Final Data on Infant Mortality by the CDC For
2004. Deficient Breastfeeding Predicts Infant Mortality. 90% (9/10)
States With Less Than 15% of Children Breastfeeding At 12 Months Have
Highest Infant Mortality Rates and 83% (10/12) States With Greater
Than 25% of Children Breastfeeding At 12 Months Have Lowest Infant
Mortality Rates. Infant Mortality can be prevented by breastfeeding.
The Health Goal for America should be 100% of Mothers should be breastfeeding or
providing breastmilk to 12 months of age" Click
HERE
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http://www.violence.de/archive.shtml#infantmortality-homicide-suicide-breastfeeding
James W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2009). A Consolidation of Statistical
Tables that summarize the statistical relationships and the naming of
tribal cultures which document the relationships between MATERNAL
Baby carrying and permitted youth sexuality with lack of violence;
and the weaning age of the culture (2.5 years or greater) with absent
or low suicides among these cultures.
INFANT PHYSICAL AFFECTION PREDICTS VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE IN 80%
(39/49) OF THE 49 TRIBAL CULTURES THAT ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD.
HIGH MATERNAL-INFANT PHYSICAL AFFECTIONAL BONDING (BABY-CARRYING) AND
PERMITTED YOUTH SEXUALITY PREDCTS WITH 100% ACCURACY THE PEACEFUL OR
VIOLENT NATURE OF THE 49 Tribal CULTURES.
77% (20/ 26) CULTURES WHERE WEANING AGE IS 2.5 YEARS OR GREATER ARE
ABSENT/ LOW SUICIDAL CULTURES.
82% (14/17) CULTURES WITH WEANING AGE 2.5 YRS AND GREATER SUPPORT
YOUTH SEX HAVE LOW SUICIDES.
86 % (31/36) OF ABSENT/ LOW SUICIDE CULTURES HAVE WEANING AGE OF 30
MONTHS OR GREATER
List of High Suicide Tribal Cultures With Weaning Age
List of Low Suicide Tribal Cultures With Weaning Age
Click
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2009). STOP THE GLOBAL KILLING OF INFANTS
AND CHILDREN: A CENTER FOR GLOBAL NONKILLING (CGNK) PROPOSAL, which
was based on a CGNK Neuroscience Exploratory Colloquium held in
Philadelphia, PA on 27-28 July 2009-- http://www.nonkilling.org ; and
is posted so that all members of the Neuroscience Exploratory
Colloquium can have access to this document. Click
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James W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2009). Letter to Dr. Collins (19 July)
which reviews the history of research on violence at the NIH where
only 0.5% of the total NIH budget is committed to violence research
despite the fact that violence is the greatest mental and social
health problem of this nation which threatens the survival of homo
sapiens. Evidence was submitted that sexual dimorphism exists
between the frontal lobes and cerebellum and that the NIH Human
Connectome Project undertake a study of these difference in an
expanded study on human violence. This study would reveal the extent
that the neurodissociative brain is the principal underlying cause
of violence--a neurodissociative behavior. No reply has been
received from Dr. Collins, as of this date. 10.20.09
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jul2009/ninds-15.htm
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Permalink: http://www.violence.de/archive.shtml#Noninvasive_Detection_of_Brain_Spiking_Pathology
Prescott, J.W. (2014, 8 May). Noninvasive Detection of Brain Spiking Pathology: Predicting and Evaluating the Violent Offender: An Appeal to the White House Office of Science and Technology
Research breakthroughs have been made in identifying a signature of brain pathology (septal spiking) associated with violent behavior that is produced by sensory deprivation of physical affectional bonding in the mother-infant relationship. These early events are characteristic of mass killers - commonly described as mentally ill - which are an increasing threat to modern societies and who have escaped early screening and identification.
This research breakthrough was made possible by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under contract No. 43-681412 that was established in 1968 with Tulane University Medical School to identify brain signatures of impaired brain development in various "at risk" populations.
http://www.violence.de/saltzberg/1980paper.pdf
Tragically, the non-invasive detection of subcortical septal spiking, an indicator of brain impairment, has yet to be documented in abused and mother-deprived children and in pathologically violent offenders.
It has been well established that the sensory deprivation of Mother Love results in aberrant brain development in the infrahuman primate where "septal spiking" (electrical storms in the subcortical emotional centers of the brain) and cerebellar abnormalities characterize and mediate the psychotic rage of adult maternally deprived primates that has tragically been ignored by the NIH and biomedical community.
https://vimeo.com/71761209 - 2 Min
https://vimeo.com/69200952 - 9 Min
Heath, R. G. (l975): Maternal-social deprivation and abnormal brain development: Disorders of emotional and social behavior. In Brain Function and Malnutrition: : Neuropsychological Methods of Assessment (Prescott, J.W., Read, M.S., & Coursin, D.B., Eds). John Wiley New York.
http://www.violence.de/heath/bfm/article.html
Berman, A.J., Berman, D. & Prescott, J.W. (1974). The effect of cerebellar lesions on emotional behavior in the rhesus monkey. In: The Cerebellum, Epilepsy and Behavior. (Cooper, I.S., Riklon, M.V. & Snider, R.S. (Eds) Plenum, NY
http://www.violence.de/berman/article.html
The continuing failure of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Human Development (NICHD) to acknowledge their own supported research has prompted this writer to write Dr. John Holdren, Policy Director, White House Office of Science and Technology to tale the initiative in evaluating the merit of Noninvasive Detection 0f Brain Spiking Pathology, as evidenced in:
http://www.violence.de/saltzberg/1980paper.pdf
The letter to Dr. Holdren, dated 8 May 2014 can be found
HERE
The letter to Dr. Collins, Director, NiH, dated 9 May 2014 cam be found
HERE
reviews the history of the NIH to act upon these scientific breakthroughs.
The letter to Dr. Collins, Director, NIH, dated 11 July 2013 can be seen
HERE
The letter to Senator Barbara A. Mikulski Chairwoman, Committee on Senate Appropriations. Dated 8 May 2014, apprizing her of these actions can be seen
HERE
This writer, as of this date, has received no responses to these letters.
N.B. NEURAL PATHWAYS AND STRUCTURES IN SSAD THEORY.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Neural_Pathways.pdf
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