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Acute serotonin 1B/1A receptor activation impairs behavioral flexibility in C57BL/6J mice
Behavioural Brain Research

Dionisio A. Amodeo (psychology) led a team of CSUSB researchers who published a study “that examined how acute 5-HT1B/1A receptor agonist RU24969 treatment at 0.01, 0.1, and 1.0 mg/kg impacted behavioral flexibility in both female and male C57BL/6J mice. Behavioral flexibility was tested using a spatial reversal learning task, with probabilistic reward contingencies.”


FBI statistics reveal rise in hate crimes in 2021
The Root
March 14, 2023

According to a newly revised report released Monday by the FBI, hate crimes increased almost 12 percent from 2020 to 2021. Unfortunately, Brian Levin—the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino—said that the crimes are being underreported. “We’re in a new era of multiyear elevated and record-breaking historic levels,” he stated.


Hate crimes increased nearly 12%, FBI says in revised 2021 report
Patch
March 14, 2023

The FBI on Monday reported an alarming, nearly 12 percent rise in hate crimes in 2021 — to a total of nearly 10,500 — in a reversal of an earlier report that said bias-based crimes were trending downward.

The hate crime numbers now include those and other large departments, and the total is the highest level in decades, Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, told The Associated Press.

“We are in a unique and disturbing era where hate crimes overall stay elevated for longer punctuated by broken records,” he said.


CSUSB professor says latest FBI hate crime numbers ‘represent a horrifying new era’
The National (India) via MSN
March 14, 2023

Hate crimes in the US surged 11.6 per cent in 2021, with the largest number motivated by bias against black people, followed by crimes committed due to a victims' ethnicity, sexuality or religion, the FBI has said in a new report, released on Monday. The report said that hate crime incidents rose to 9,065 in 2021 from 8,120 in 2020.

The rise in hate crimes in 2021 was the largest in more than three decades, Brian Levin, director of the Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, said in an interview.

“This represents a horrifying new era that we're in with elevated historic levels across many years and a broken record in 2021.”


Hate crimes in US reach all-time high in 2021, FBI data shows
MENAFN (Jordan)
March 14, 2023

Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, noted that the US is currently experiencing a disturbing era where hate crimes are remaining elevated for longer, with broken records being punctuated by new highs. New data released by the FBI on Monday revealed that hate crimes in the United States reached an all-time high in 2021. The analysis of data from last year showed a 12 percent increase in the number of hate crimes recorded.


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