The surprise verdict in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial, in which a Fairfax, Va., jury awarded Depp $15 million and Heard $2 million on her counterclaim, has been met with cries of dismay and anger from progressive punditry and social media which had already been deploring the pro-Depp drift of online public opinion as a misogynistic backlash.
Smacking your child can affect their brain development by altering neural responses to their environment, a new study warns.
Harvard University researchers investigated the effects of smacking, known as corporal punishment, on the brains of 147 children.
They found it may affect a child s brain development in similar ways to more severe forms of violence and maltreatment.
Children who had been smacked had a greater neural response in multiple regions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), including in regions that are part of what s known as the salience network (SN).
These regions respond to cues in the environment that tend to be consequential, such as a threat, and may affect decision-making and processing of situations.