Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2 Biobehavioral Influences (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Over the past four decades, there has been an increasing body of data in the human literature on neuropsychiatric disorders that raises the question about a possible relationship between the abnormal function of specific regions of the brain and the occurrence of violent and aggressive behavior. The view that violence and aggression are human behaviors symptomatic of an underlying brain disorder, rather than simply acts to be punished under law, is relatively new.
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Med., strict medullaris; MD, medial dorsal nucleus of thalamus; O.B., olfactory bulb; Ling., lingual; Temp., temporal; Hypoth., hypothalamus; MM, mammillary bodies; Parolf., parolfactory; H., habenular nucleus. SOURCE: Penfield and Jasper ~1954~.
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The section that deals with animal models focuses on two behaviors that can be readily elicited in the cat: quiet biting "predatory" attack and affective defense. It is our belief that the neural substrates and mechanisms underlying these distinctive forms of aggressive behavior in the cat may also regulate aggressive reactions at the human level or, possibly, provide a framework for understanding human violence and aggression.
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