Korean J Psychopharmacol.
1998 Apr;9(1):3-18.
Neurobiology of Aggression
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, Yongdong Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
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Human aggression is an urgent social and clinical problem. Aggression is an inescapable clinical challenge in diverse neuropsychiatric patients populations. Beacuse aggressive or violent behavior has many different causes and manifestations, the study of aggressive or violent behavior is very difficult. However, over the past 30years, such experiments have yields a large amount of information on the neuroanatomical, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms underlying aggression in mammals. In this paper, we reviewed the neurochemical and neuroanatomical aspects of human aggression.