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Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2 Biobehavioral Influences (1994) / Chapter Skim
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... over which the autonomic and several of the somatic motor components of the predatory attack response are expressed. However, little has been said of the anatomic substrates governing how the hypothalamus might regulate visual processes central to the organization of the attack response.
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... /~i Affective (Strict Terminalis) / ~ ~C<~Jj'( / \ Defense Site Preoptic Area Medial / ~ of Amygdala ~I;; I Anterior Hypothalamus ~ ~ , Affective / \ ~ ~ \ Ventromedial Defense Site En_ Nucleus Central Gray Ventral Tegmentum ¢'2~' 'l' ""''I FIGURE 4 Diagram indicating the principal ascending and descending projections of the medial hypothalamus associated with affective defense behavior.
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  • predatory attack
  • attack response
  • affective defense
  • lateral hypothalamus
  • defense behavior

  • brain stem
  • central gray
  • perifornical hypothalamus
  • anterior hypothalamus
  • descending projections


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