The video starts out with the story of Andy Williams. Andy Williams, was a young man who had been bullied at school by some "friends". On March 5th 2001, Andy had shot-up San Diego High School, the school that he attended. Andy had came to school that morning with a revolver in his backpack. When Andy got to school, he opened fire, injuring thirteen and killing two. Andy wasn’t the first rampage killer.
The work of trying to understand the mind of a killer, being several decades ago. In 1966, an ex-marine by the name of Charles Whitman, killed his mother and wife. Later he climbed the top of a bell tower at the University of Texas and started opening fire there. The total damage Charles did was sixteen dead, and thirty-three wounded. Before …show more content…
When comparing the data, they found patterns. A neuroscientist by the name of Josh Buckholtz, started searching for the core of biological behavior. There are many circuits in the brain, but one in particular could turn anyone into something, or something unnoticeable. The circuit in the brain that connects the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for critical thinking, to the amygdala, which is the center of emotion. In a normal brain, if a threat is detected, and it is not real, the prefrontal cortex sends a message to the amygdala to calm down. However, if the wiring is not connected correctly, the message to the amygdala might not go through. When this occurs, the people will react with greater amygdala activity and more emotion. Some of the reason this happens is due to the genes we get from our parents. Certain genes can cause this circuit to become weak and break, but genes are not the only thing that can cause this to happen, nurture also plays a role in this. Moshe Szye and Michael Meaney knew that this violent behavior was not mainly from genes, mostly because it happened even when the caregiver was unrelated and even after the rats were grown, the behavior continued. Within the rats, some genes got turned on or off, all depending on how they were cared for. The hippocampus turned on a gene that decreased the stress hormone. Therefore, if the baby rat was not giving attention, a chemical reaction formed and stopped the gene from
The work of trying to understand the mind of a killer, being several decades ago. In 1966, an ex-marine by the name of Charles Whitman, killed his mother and wife. Later he climbed the top of a bell tower at the University of Texas and started opening fire there. The total damage Charles did was sixteen dead, and thirty-three wounded. Before …show more content…
When comparing the data, they found patterns. A neuroscientist by the name of Josh Buckholtz, started searching for the core of biological behavior. There are many circuits in the brain, but one in particular could turn anyone into something, or something unnoticeable. The circuit in the brain that connects the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for critical thinking, to the amygdala, which is the center of emotion. In a normal brain, if a threat is detected, and it is not real, the prefrontal cortex sends a message to the amygdala to calm down. However, if the wiring is not connected correctly, the message to the amygdala might not go through. When this occurs, the people will react with greater amygdala activity and more emotion. Some of the reason this happens is due to the genes we get from our parents. Certain genes can cause this circuit to become weak and break, but genes are not the only thing that can cause this to happen, nurture also plays a role in this. Moshe Szye and Michael Meaney knew that this violent behavior was not mainly from genes, mostly because it happened even when the caregiver was unrelated and even after the rats were grown, the behavior continued. Within the rats, some genes got turned on or off, all depending on how they were cared for. The hippocampus turned on a gene that decreased the stress hormone. Therefore, if the baby rat was not giving attention, a chemical reaction formed and stopped the gene from