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Frontal cortex. does that create an impulse control problem. where violent impulses that might be suppressed by that cortex, it just fails and they act out violently? >> the prefrontal cortex is the part of your brain that watches you. it helps you, stops you from saying and doing stupid things. it's also involved in empathy and impulse control. when it's damaged, a person's empathy is often low and they often don't think about the long-term consequences. but this shooter like many others was probably also suicidal. so their emotional brain was probably working way too hard. you often see that...

Frontal cortex. does that create an impulse control problem. where violent impulses that might be suppressed by that cortex, it just fails and they act out violently? >> the prefrontal cortex is the part of your brain that watches you. it helps you, stops you from saying and doing stupid things. it's also involved in empathy and impulse control. when it's damaged, a person's empathy is often low and they often don't think about the long-term consequences. but this shooter like many others was probably also suicidal. so their emotional brain was probably working way too hard. you often see that...

Frontal cortex. does that create an impulse control problem. where violent impulses that might be suppressed by that cortex, it just fails and they act out violently? >> the prefrontal cortex is the part of your brain that watches you. it helps you, stops you from saying and doing stupid things. it's also involved in empathy and impulse control. when it's damaged, a person's empathy is often low and they often don't think about the long-term consequences. but this shooter like many others was probably also suicidal. so their emotional brain was probably working way too hard. you often see that...

On the internet that radicalizes them and that they should not drink until 21, that they have not formed their prefrontal cortex for judgment. i tell my two 20 year olds and my one 18 year old this all the time, and that those 18-year-old males that are responsible for the recent shootings and most of them are not fit to buy any weapon let alone the worst one. so i would like the media who get in front of greg abbott and ted cruz and everyone else to ask do you believe that 18-year-old boys are fit to make these purchases? really? why? then suggest what they're doing to improve the state of th...

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