A Portrait of the Dumbass as an Old Man: Do You or Someone You Know Suffer From MAH?

[Why did I not publish this in May 2020 when I wrote it? Was I actually going to try to get the MAH Foundation started? No recollection. I'll go on & publish now, worry about whom to send it to later.

Last Update 2020-05-05]

MAH, or Malignant Amygdala Hyperplasia

Landmark study in 2011:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)00289-2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

Another study in late 2017

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0248-5

Psychological study:

2012

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2011.0268#aff-1

my comment: could also reference hyperthyroidism.

So, perhaps we look at this result as telling us that Conservatism is a side effect of MAH - Malignant Amygdala Hyperplasia? Perhaps it is treatable by drugs, similar to the one I take for BPH? Or perhaps research by someplace like 23andMe could identify a genetic component? Maybe we could finally start building the bright, shiny future we all deserve if we can finally get rid of Conservatism and its friends, Patriarchy and Feudalism.
I'm going to contact a few of my very rich friends and propose the creation of the MAH Foundation, to promote research into this disorder and into finding a cure for it. Perhaps the scourge of MAH can be wiped out in our lifetimes!
So tempting to call it MAD - Malignant Amygdala Disorder - but I believe MAH is the more correct terminology.
Actually, I think that Malignant => Cancerous. So maybe it's Benign Amygdala Hyperplasia, or BAH. But IMO, it is a cancer on our society. My more technical medical allies will have to make that call. How hard will it be to get this into ICD-10?

Articles discussing:

2010:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342239/Brain-study-reveals-right-wing-conservatives-larger-primitive-amygdala.html

https://www.salon.com/2010/12/29/conservative_brains/

2011:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives-big-fear-brain-study-finds

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/your-brain-on-politics-the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-liberals-and-conservatives

2016:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes

https://www.salon.com/2016/06/06/study_liberals_and_conservatives_have_different_brain_structures_partner/

2017

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/9/1651771/-Neurology-Conservative-Amygdala-Fake-News-Liberal-Anterior-Cingulate-Cortex-Rational-Analysis