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Prior work has revealed that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with altered (a) attentional performance and (b) resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in brain networks linked to attention. Here, we sought to characterize and link these behavioral and brain-based alterations in the context of Posner and Peterson's tripartite model of attention. Male military veterans with PTSD ( N = 49; all deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan) and healthy age-and-gender-matched community controls ( N = 26) completed the Attention Network Task. A subset of these individuals (36 PTSD and 21 controls) also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess rsFC. The behavioral measures revealed that the PTSD group was impaired at disengaging spatial attention, relative to the control group. FMRI measures further revealed that, relative to the control group, the PTSD group exhibited greater rsFC between the salience network and (a) the default mode network, (b) the dorsal attention network, and (c) the ventral attention network. Moreover, problems with disengaging spatial attention increased the rsFC between the networks above in the control group, but not in the PTSD group. The present findings link PTSD to both altered orienting of spatial attention and altered relationships between spatial orienting and functional connectivity involving the salience network. Interventions that target orienting and disengaging spatial attention may be a new avenue for PTSD research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to provide an in‐depth description of the radicalization process, which is a very important step in terrorist activities. The author proposes a translational analysis that is first based on the author's experience in the psychological evaluation of terrorist behavior and second on an exhaustive review of the current literature. The search terms “terrorism,” “radicalization,” “social psychology,” and “psychopathology” were used to identify relevant studies in the following databases: Scopus, Medline, PubCentral, and Science Direct. Because of its importance, understanding radicalization process should be one of the priorities of behavioral scientists. International studies should be performed with a focus on several aspects, such as radicalization risk factors, brainwashing, the role of the media, and finally, in de‐radicalization programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work analyses the evolution of the scientific visibility of the neurophysiologist José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado. It examines the longitudinal evolution from 1955 to 2013 of an article (Delgado, Roberts, & Miller, 1954) studying the neurological basis of learning and motivation and compares it with a coetaneous article (Olds & Milner, 1954) with a similar subject and methodology. Both studies have been essential in Psychology. This work analyses the number of times each article has been cited between 1955-1984 and 1985-2013. The results show that the visibility of James Olds and Peter Milner's article (expressed in number of citations between 1955-1984 and 1985-2013) has longitudinally increased (p < .001), whereas the number of citations received by José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado et al.'s article has significantly reduced (p < .001). The results are discussed and the low visibility of Delgado's article is explained through historical and social factors, including the growing concern about compliance with bioethical and research guidelines and the controversial media projection of the Spanish scientist, not by the intrinsic value or the scientific repercussion of the compared articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a psychological profile of Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban refugee who became the center of a custody dispute between relatives living in Miami, Florida and his father in Cuba, and who in 2000 was seized by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and returned to Cuba. According to the author ,Gonzalez likely suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is at high risk for psychiatric mind control by the Cuban government.

The article discusses the psychodynamics of creating terrorists and the vulnerability of in-betweeners, meaning young people who are in a transitional phase of their life, to radical Islam. The article mentions radical imams and Internet recruiters use mind control, thought reform methods, and social group ambiance to exploit the adolescent tendency toward rebellion. It also mentions the family life and radicalization of Adam Gadahn, John Walker Lindh, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jose Padilla, Richard Reid, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The appeal of Osama bin Laden and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, leaders of the terrorist al-Qaeda organization, is also noted.

Presents information a study that investigated thought control strategies in motor vehicle accident (MVA) survivors with either acute stress disorder (ASD) or no ASD. Percentage of MVA survivors who satisfy criteria for ASD still suffer posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Core feature of ASD; Role of thought control strategies in ASD.

This article explores the application of the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the purported right of an individual to think social stigmatized thoughts—for example, psychotic or sexually sadistic thoughts. The state may attempts to control such thoughts either by imposing a thought-control technology on the thinker or by prohibiting the thinker from voluntarily using thought-control technology of his own. Thought-control technologies embrace antipsychotic drugs, hallucinogenic drugs, pornography, and other mind-altering devices. Two underlying models of the free speech clause are proposed—a strong model and a weak model. Despite the apparent endorsement of the strong model by the United States Supreme Court, courts in fact vacillate between the two models and are, apparently, reluctant to utilize the First Amendment as a tool to enforce any right to think wicked thoughts. This reluctance, it is proposed, may well have a religious basis in an equation of wicked thoughts with sin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on how much prostitution has in common with other forms of violence against women. The author pointed out the wide social tolerance for prostitution and the virtual invisibility of the consumers of this action. The lack of awareness among clinicians regarding the systematic methods of brainwashing, indoctrination and physical control that are used against women in prostitution which accompany experiences of sexual assault and being hunted down must be addressed.