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Rev Neurol Neurocir Psiquiat 2007; 40 (4)

Approach to biological correlate of human aggressiveness and violence

Calzada RA

Language: Spanish
References: 54
Page: 114-121
PDF size: 61.19 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The aggressive conduct and violence are two phenomena that keep narrow interrelation, in whose regulation participate diverse structures that are part of the Nervous System, standing out the participation of the cerebral amygdale and frontal lobe. Numerous theories have been developed that try to explain the genesis of these phenomena, accepting by the present neuroscientific community those that interrelate the social, biological and genetic elements and in which the cerebral operation plays an important role. As a complement and demonstrative elements of the paper that can play the structural or functional cerebral alterations in conduct changes and the appearance of aggressiveness patterns and violence, there are exposed cases reported by the international literature of patients with cerebral injuries in adult age or during childhood.


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