Meng-Wu Lecture by Stephanie Brown, PhD
Dr. Brown received her PhD in social psychology from Arizona State University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Stony Brook Medical School. Dr. Brown uses a variety of biomarkers to test whether and how helping behavior in humans emerges from neural circuits that evolved to motivate parenting behavior. Her studies increase understanding of how neural circuits that support parenting behavior promote mental health and protect individuals against disease.
Dr. Brown will present: Is it safe to help? Perceived familiarity with the recipient alters the neural, hormonal, and immunological consequences of helping behavior. Here is a sneak preview: Two studies tested the neurological, hormonal, and immunological effects of helping behavior. Results of these tests showed that the physiological consequences of helping behavior depend on the nature of the relationship between the helper and recipient. When individuals helped someone they cared about, helpers showed a pattern of neural responses that resemble the neural responses associated with parenting behavior, and they displayed a hormonal profile that down-regulated transforming growth factor-beta (TgF-B), a molecule that turns on disease states in the brain.
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I wonder how flexible the conditions are, for instance. Can people be trained or choose to adopt a reverence for all people and especially those that look and sound different? If you believe that all humans on earth are blood related and it’s in our best interest to capitalize on our shared interests and not focus on the difference that aren’t tools, can’t you probably activate the same stuff as a person who’s being compassionate to someone in their family? I’ve seen research that suggest people and learn to be compassion. Even serial killers can learn to be more compassionate. I wonder then are we actually inadvertently trained to be monsters. Are serial killers merely people with faulty algorithms. With physiology that releases oxytocin at inopportune times or quantities. I under stand the dr’s desire to use her insights to treat people that are struggling as opposed to members of the population that are more functional. I think you’re gonna do good for a few that way but the real impact would be educating the general public about your findings and their implications so we can bring to heal people and help them understand the truth about what we are and how me might reach a higher potential if we apply ourselves.