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What is justice when a mentally ill person kills?

To Dora Molina, the teenager who took her husband’s life is a danger to the public and needs to spend up to 30 years behind bars, about the same amount of time she and José Tomás Mejía were together.She doesn’t want the assailant to enjoy his youth so soon after killing the Salvadoran immigrant, who spent his life fighting on behalf of others.To those who knew the teen, however, the stabbing was the last step on a troubling path that started in the small room where he watched his mother die from a terminal illness; one…

Is Sam Bankman-Fried Planning for a ‘Mentally Distressed’ Defense?

Tweets by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are raising various speculations on Twitter SEC after Sam Bankman-Fried? In less than a week, the cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried went from industry leader to industry villain, lost most of his fortune, saw his $32 billion company plunge into bankruptcy, and became the target of investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. The latest tweet at the time of writing, posted by Bankman-Fried at 5:30 am UTC on Nov. 15, is…

“I Was Mentally Misdiagnosed & Nearly Drugged,” Post His Twitter Return

Kanye West Exposes Celebrity Trainer For Threatening Him By Releasing their Personal Chat Online ( Photo Credit – Flickr ) Rapper Kanye West had been facing major backlash from netizens for his anti-semitic comments on social media. Even celebrities namely John Legend, Diane Warren, Jack Antonoff and others targeted the rapper for the same. On the other hand, after Kanye West was previously banned by Twitter for his anti-semitic comments, he recently took to Twitter and posted a note claiming that he was mentally…

Left-handed people are more likely to be mentally ill – now we know why

Left-handed individuals only make up 10 percent of the world’s population. Despite that small number, 40 percent of all cases of severe mental illness come from left-handed individuals. Scientists aren’t quite sure why mental illnesses have a higher chance of manifesting in left-handed people, but they believe it could be directly tied to the way their brains are wired. Mental illness isn’t something to balk at. In fact, most of us suffer from some kind of mental disorder or illness at some point in our…

Mentally exhausted? Study blames buildup of key chemical in brain | Science

You know the feeling. You’ve been cramming for a test or presentation all day, when suddenly you can’t remember simple things, like what you ate for breakfast, or where exactly Belize is. Now, a study hints at why we get so unraveled after hours of hard mental labor: a toxic buildup of glutamate, the brain’s most abundant chemical signal. The study isn’t the first to try to explain cognitive fatigue—and it is bound to stir up controversy, says Jonathan Cohen, a neuroscientist at…