The Origins of Peace and Violence (Website) Deprivation of Physical Affection as a Main Cause of Depression, Aggression and Drug Abuse
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Various scientists have documented the importance of touch, movement, affection and sexual freedom for the development of children and juveniles into healthy and peaceful adults. This archive documents some of these studies. The archive is expanded continually. Please check back soon and, if you like what you find, please pass the word. Want to help? Mail me. New translations are always welcome! |
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Rock
A Bye Baby This film, which is available in Real Video format in its entirety, documents the necessity of touching and movement for a healthy infant development. It also documents pioneer research that has shown how infant brain development of premature babies can be improved by using swinging incubators instead of stationary mattresses. A summary of the film, including a comprehensive bibliography, is also online. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D. (1970/1972). Lead Cover Story in The NIH
Record on NICHD supported research on child abuse and
neglect research, denied by NICHD officials (September 16, 1970);
and a story in The NIH Record on Dr. Prescott being awarded the
CINE Golden Eagle Award for his role in the Time-Life production
of the national and internationally awarded film Rock-A-Bye-Baby
(January 4, 1972), which was premiered at the 1970 White House
Conference on Children. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Before Ethics and Morality |
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Gene
Bylinsky: New Clues To The Causes of Violence This article presents, in an understandable yet accurate manner, research from the seventies on the origins of violence, including the brain research of Heath, Saltzberg, and Reis; the behavioral research of Bandura and Liebert, Harlow's work on isolation-reared monkeys and Prescott's S-SAD theory. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Body Pleasure and The Origins of
Violence Highly recommended. This key article
presents both the results of the cross-cultural and the
neurobiological studies of Dr. Prescott and his team at the
NICHD/NIH. The results are astonishing: It appears that
"primitive" cultures which subject their infants to
physical punishment and/or punish premarital sex are 100% violent
(and exhibit some other interesting characteristics), whereas
cultures which lavish physical affection on their infants and/or
tolerate premarital sex are 100% peaceful. This is causally
explained with the brain research on humans and monkeys, where
electrical stimulation of the pleasure and aggression / violence
centers of the brain would directly inhibit each other. This
fundamental relationship is of utmost importance to the
understanding of our modern culture. |
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Violence Examines violence both in tribal and modern societies and explores Dr. Prescott's S-SAD theory. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Child Abuse in America: Slaughter of the
Innocents Warning: This article contains photos of abused children on a separate page -- looking at these images may cause serious discomfort. While the abuse depicted on these police photos is certainly much more severe than the corporal punishments and spankings many parents subject their children to, it is clear that these are merely differences in quantity, not in quality. There is no such thing as a "good spanking", physically punishing children gradually conditions them to accept pain in pl ace of pleasure -- and violence in place of peace, as has been shown by research cited in this article and documented on the rest of this site. You may want to visit Project Nospank for further information on the negative effects on spanking, they have compiled an immense amount of research on the subject. This article should act as a reference for showing what physical punishment of children is really about: trauma, injury, death. |
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Riesen,
A.H., Dickerson, G.P. and Struble, R.G.: Somatosensory
Restriction and Behavioral Development in Stumptail
Monkeys. |
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Prescott, James W. (1977). Two Photo
collages that illustrate the damage inflicted by
mother-infant/child separation in human and infrahuman primates
which includes self-mutilation and sexual dysfunction; and
positive effects of maternal-affection. From
http://www.violence.de/prescott/pis/1977paper.pdf Click HERE
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Alienation of Affection A very short summary of Dr. Prescott's research for those who have little time. |
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Happy
Babies Video interviews by Connie Chung with Dr. Prescott and Suzanne Arms. |
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Lionel
Gambill: Can More Touching Lead to Less Violence in Our
Society? A very short summary of Dr. Prescott's research for those who have little time. |
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Walter
B. Essman, M.D., Ph.D.: Social Isolation and Brain Chemistry:
Understanding Drug Induced Behaviors Summarizes the effects of social isolation on animal neurology and resulting aggressive behavior. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Genital Pain vs. Genital Pleasure: Why The
One and Not The Other? This article deals with the problem of male and female genital mutilation and explains it with the fundamental pain/pleasure conditioning that takes place in the mother-childhood bonding phase and in the adolescent sexuality phase. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Failure of Pleasure as a Cause of
Drug/Alcohol Abuse and Addictions |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Breastfeeding: Brain Nutrients In Brain
Development For Human Love And Peace |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Only More Mother-Infant Bonding Can Prevent
Cycles of Violence |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: America's Lost Dream. Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: How Culture Shapes the Developing Brain &
the Future of Humanity |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The Origins of Love |
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Ann
Druyan on Prescott Excerpt from a radio interview with Ann Druyan by Arnell Dowret, about the work of James W. Prescott. |
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Naturalism
and Body Pleasure Radio interview with James W. Prescott by Arnell Dowret. |
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Questioning
Judeo-Christian Morality Radio interview with James W. Prescott by Arnell Dowret. |
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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. HERE (last modified ). |
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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 |
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Mary
Coleman, M.D.: Platelet Serotonin in Disturbed Monkeys and
Children |
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Robert
G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D.: Pleasure and Brain Activity in Man. Deep
and Surface Electroencephalograms During Orgasm |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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William
A. Mason and M. D. Kenney: Redirection of Filial Attachments in
Rhesus Monkeys: Dogs as Mother Surrogates |
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Schwarz, Dietrich W.F. and Frederickson, John M.: Rhesus
Monkey Vestibular Cortex: A Bimodal Primary Projection Field
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Robert
G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D.: Maternal-Social Deprivation and Abnormal
Brain Development: Disorders of Emotional and Social Behavior |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Somatosensory Deprivation and Its
Relationship to the Blind |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Aspects of Human
Affectional Development |
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Bernard
Saltzberg: The Detection of Intermittent Transient Patterns of
Brain Electrical Activity of Unknown Waveshape |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Somatosensory Affectional Deprivation (SAD)
Theory of Drug and Alcohol Use |
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Bernard
Saltzberg: Noninvasive Detection of Deep Brain Spiking Pathology:
Implications for Evaluating the Violent Offender |
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Floeter, M.K. and Greenough, W.T (1979).
Cerebellar Plasticity: Modification of Purkinje Cell Structure by
Differential Rearing in Monkeys. |
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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 |
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Heath,
Llewellyn and Rouchell: "The Cerebellar Pacemaker for
Intractable Behavioral Disorders and Epilepsy: Follow-Up
Report" |
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Robert
G. Heath, D.Sc., M.D. et al.: Cerebellar Vermal Atrophy in
Psychiatric Patients |
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James
W. PRESCOTT, PH.D. (1989): Profiles of Affectionate (Peaceful) v
Non-Affectionate (Violent) Tribal Cultures. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D. (1990): Affectional Bonding for the Prevention
of Violent Behaviors: Neurobiological, Psychological and
Religious/Spiritual Determinants. |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Sexual Dimorphism in the Developing Human
Brain: Evidence from Lateral Skull X-Rays |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The Prescott Report: Part 1 |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The Origins of Human Love and Violence |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: The "Bilbray Report" |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Breastfeeding Prevents Depression and
Suicide |
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D.: Review of the Book Mother
Nature by Blaffer Hrdy |
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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. |
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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. Click HERE for additional commentary. (last modified ). |
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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; [
Abstract]
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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 [ Full
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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 [ Full
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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 HERE
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2007): BREASTFEEDING BONDING FOR 2.5 YEARS OR
LONGER: PREVENTING DEPRESSION, SUICIDE AND VIOLENCE. |
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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. Click HERE
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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 HERE
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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
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James
W. Prescott, Ph.D. (2005): Prevention Or Therapy And The Politics
of Trust: Inspiring a New Human Agenda. |
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Prescott, J.W. (2010)
Statistical graphs showing the high correlations between
infant/child mortality and homicide for the Fifty States and for
the years 1930-1968. Here
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Prescott J.W. (2010) A 2004 Map by
the Center For Disease Control On Breastfeeding with a
superimposition of Infant Mortality data for the Year 2004 with
the principle findings by this author. |