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...what happens if you disable the amygdalae? This is not something you could (ethically) do to a research subject, but scientists have been studying a 42-year-old woman who has such severe damage to her amygdalae - due to a rare genetic condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease, which causes calcification in the temporal lobes - that they have stopped functioning. The patient's identity isn't public, but neuroscientists call her SM, and a new paper in the journal Nature Neuroscience reports the results of experiments judging her conception of personal space...
...Urbach said both he and the masters hoped the memorial bell-ringing would raise student and community awareness of hate crimes...
...Urbach said students should be informed about these issues and might want to read "A Community of Equals," a recent pamphlet published and distributed by the Office of the Dean of Harvard College which discusses issues of sexual diversity...
...Urbach said that though the murder of Matthew Shepard is just the most recent in along history of hate crimes, Harvard studentsshould be particularly concerned...
...must have been like any other undergraduatethat you'd encounter at Harvard, like any one ofus. That's what makes it hit home," Urbach said...