Drug addiction could also be directly related to lead poisoning. The fact that it creates a compulsion to injest things combined with an ability to: 1. Control pain. 2. Evaluate potential rewards/punishments. 3. Regulate impulses. 4. Avoid obsessive behaviors. Says yes.
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Another way to look at a lot of this is: Tons of social, psychological, and political policies and beliefs could simply be because tons of people were poisoned with lead. Prisons, laws, numbers of officers, therapies, racist/sexist beliefs, all need to be reevaluated.
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Sorry I have one more, but this one is potentially *super* unpopular: It looks like damage to the ACC also causes things like "alien hand syndrome" and OCD, which could explain people who desperately need to cut off their arm to feel "right". Could cause body dysmorphia too.
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Combine OCD and 'alien hand syndrome' with damage of self-awareness, and an ability to correct errors in visual perception, and damage to the ACC could be the cause of people not feeling like they belong in their own body.
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