Aggression
Research reports from Tufts University provide new insights into aggression
Published in Law and Health Weekly, February 9th, 2008
"Psychopathological violence in criminals and intense aggression in fruit flies and rodents are studied with novel behavioral, neurobiological, and genetic approaches that characterize the escalation from adaptive aggression to violence. One goal is to delineate the type of aggressive behavior and its escalation with greater precision; second, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and brainstem structures emerge as pivotal nodes in the limbic circuitry mediating escalated aggressive behavior," researchers in the United States report.
"The neurochemical and molecular work focuses on the genes that enable invertebrate aggression in males and females and genes that are expressed or...
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