Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2 Biobehavioral Influences (1994) / Chapter Skim
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and tobacco tRush and Callahan, 19891. It should also be noted that Streissguth found nicotine effects on performance in her maternal alcohol studies independent of alcohol effects iTable 161.
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brain mechanisms remains very much in doubt. The literature surveyed in this report is suggestive of some relationship between pathophysiologic processes in the limbic system and the tendency to engage in assaultive and violent behavior; however, the issues of sample size, sampling bias, and the co-occurrence of other variables that could account for the excess violence in the patient or offender groups under study remain for the most part unresolved.
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We believe that this review has highlighted the fact that violent behavior is more likely the consequence of impaired cognitive processes than of altered emotional states. Our efforts should therefore be directed toward understanding, controlling, ameliorating, and reducing the effects of brain-damaging environments.
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98 / ATIAN F MIRSKY AND ASIAN SIEGEL MESOL I ~1B I C COMPROM I SE = CONGENITAL ~ I MPR I RED ELEMENTS OF RTTENTI ON FOCUS, ENECUTE 1~1~1111~ SHIFT CONCENTR8TI ON D IFF I CULTI ES DEU I RNT CLASSROOM BEHRU I OR SHY, AGGRESS I UK, SHY-AGGRESS I UEI ~ RGE7-12 ~ SUBSTANCE ROUSE, DEPRESS I ON, OTHER PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ~ ADOLESCENCE ~ FIGURE 6 This model is based on data gathered in the course of the collaborative Johns Hopkins University-NIMH prevention intervention research project referred to in the text, as well as the results of the studies by Kellam and colleagues ~1975)
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