The effects of food deprivation,aggression, and isolation on infanticide in the male Mongolian gerbil

Male Mongolian gerbils show an increase in infanticide and pup-cannibalism after 24-hr food deprivation, suggesting that food acquisition is a function of this activity. Dominant animals show high levels of infanticide, but subordinate animals are inhibited from this activity. An increase in infanticide is seen when males from a single sex group are isolated; this increase resembles that observed when a male is separated from his pregnant mate [Elwood, 1980]. These results suggest a mechanism whereby males are normally brought into a noninfanticidal state during cohabitation with their pregnant mates owing to subordination by the latter. In this manner males are able to utilize strange pups as food but avoid harming their own offspring.     

Pharmacotherapy for the Pseudobulbar Affect in Individuals Who Have Sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury: a Systematic Review

Neuropsychology Review - Pseudobulbar affect is a debilitating condition that significantly reduces quality of life for many individuals following traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is characterized...     

Unconsidered preferences

Modern contractarians ground morality on preferences that are “considered' to the requisite degree. This move is inadmissible for contractarians. If what counts as a considered preference is external to the agent's estimations, it robs the requisite (to contractarians) motivational force for agents to be moral. There is also a danger of begging the question by grounding morality on pre-approved motives. If the determination of considered preferences is subjective, on the other hand, then a considered preference can be none other than a preference held presently by the actor—whether or not it will sustain sufficient reflection. If so, the introduction of ‘considered’ preferences is idle. Either way, it's bad.