The limbic system is composed of the dark-shaded structures in the center of the brain. They are in a horrible disaster. It's a storm in the brain. It's like a lightning storm outside killing people. Or an earthquake killing people.
Nobody is to be blamed.
Pontius believes that widespread recognition of the syndrome could ensure more humane legal treatment for those who commit such irrational acts. Pontius was drawn into psychiatry 50 years ago. As a young student in wartime Germany, she was intrigued by the human mind and especially by the question of how thought turns into action. She decided to go to medical school to get a better understanding of the biological basis of the human mind. Her plans were interrupted in 1946 when her family fled from East Germany.