But for state officials, many behavior experts and even some former Rotenberg parents, the shock therapy at the school represents a dangerous, outdated approach to severe behavioral problems, reminiscent of the electric shock helmets used on some autistic patients into the 1980s and now discredited.
The finding that these pathways are more mature in adolescents who engage in dangerous behaviors provides strong support for the theory that behavioral exploration, across a wide range of domains, is associated with differences in white matter connectivity.
Patients presenting dangerous behavior.
And most important of all, and deservedly made strange for the reader: The authors show how dangerous our behavioral scientists (and by implication their human and social science kin) might have been, co-opted as they were into the military and political decision-making in crisis situations just as physicists were co-opted into the construction of the bomb.
7 About 50% of the informal help received by AD patients has been reported to consist of surveillance, avoidance of repetitive or dangerous activities, and management of behavioral symptoms.
32 Although HHS may meet the needs of demented care recipients by helping them regarding their functional impairments, it does not directly address other needs related to cognitive deterioration, such as surveillance, diversion from repetitive or dangerous activities, and management of behavioral disturbances.
Lead is a deadly neurotoxin, and exposure is especially dangerous for children, who may experience stunted growth, behavioral problems and permanently decreased IQs. .
Few researchers contend that the mild stimulant is as dangerous as its potent and illegal counterparts, but some behavioral scientists have argued that because users seek out caffeine repeatedly, it should be considered a drug of dependence.
In comparison, personalized advertising -- also called targeted and behavioral ads -- doesn't seem nearly so dangerous.
(By imposing heavy fines and suspensions for particularly dangerous tackles, he has seemed to suggest that football's challenges are behavioral rather than institutional).
