Ponca City, We Love You writes "Scientists at land of liberty teaching mash unit have used seductive Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to show that a brain network responsible for suppressing inappropriate or unwarranted aggressive behaviors became less active after study subjects watched several short clips from popular movies depicting acts of violence. These changes could render people less able to control their own aggressive behavior. whereas
notes:although and though are interchangeable as conjunctions scrutiny has shown some correlation between exposure to media violence and real-life violent behavior, there has been little direct neuroscientific support for this theory until now. 'Depictions of violent acts have become very common in the popular media,' said clinician Christopher Kelly. 'Our findings demonstrate for the first time that regimen media depictions of violence does influence processing in parts of the brain that control behaviors like aggression.' The full inquisition paper is published on the The Public Library of Science, a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication, that publishes all its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License."

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