A few nights without sleep can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually put the brain into a primitive "fight or flight" state, researchers say.
Buuuut ... the most common response in fear situations is the same as that of that iconic of kiwi imports, the opossum - people freeze. Mostly without sleep people yawn a lot, are drowsy, slow, have poor concentration etc. 'More likely to fight' really is an artefact of teperament and how they are predisposed at the time.
The findings may shed light on psychiatric diseases ... but not really. It is quite widely known that ongoing sleep deprivation will cause racing thoughts, preoccupations/ruminative thinking and hallucinations .. particularly in the isolatory amongst us. The ability to differentiate between psychiatric illness and this phenomenon is simply not going to be possible - they are in all probability one and the same.
So no mitigatory factors here for Mr Mallard, nor here ... Murderers' provocation defence set to be scrapped. Now one might think that this is a little excessive but many a person has been known to have 'egg (shell) like' heads and qualities and I am sure that many have descrbed Tau Henare as having these qualities - so the risk was there ... and if provocation is removed as a defence for murder it must mean it is similarly removed for any act that could, just possibly... well remotely ... cause serious bodily harm.
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