Research Catalog

Title

Neurobiology of aggression : understanding and preventing violence / edited by Mark P. Mattson.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2003], ©2003.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Mattson, Mark Paul.

Description

x, 324 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary neuroscience

Uniform Title

Contemporary neuroscience.

Subjects

• Violence > Prevention
• Violence > Physiological aspects
• Aggressiveness > Social aspects
• Aggressiveness > Physiological aspects
• Aggressiveness > Treatment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Cortical and Limbic Neural Circuits Mediating Aggressive Behavior / Thomas R. Gregg -- 2. Emotion Regulation: An Affective Neuroscience Approach / R. James R. Blair and Dennis S. Charney -- 3. The Serotonergic Dimension of Aggression and Violence / Klaus Peter Lesch -- 4. The Neurochemical Genetics of Serotonin in Aggression, Impulsivity, and Suicide / Mark D. Underwood and J. John Mann -- 5. Behavioral and Neuropharmacological Differentiation of Offensive and Defensive Aggression in Experimental and Seminaturalistic Models / Philip M. Wall, D. Caroline Blanchard and Robert J. Blanchard -- 6. Neuroendocrine Stress Responses and Aggression / Jozsef Haller and Menno R. Kruk -- 7. Y Chromosome and Antisocial Behavior / Pierre L. Roubertoux and Michele Carlier -- 8. Aggression in Psychiatric Disorders / Shari R. Kohn and Gergory M. Asnis -- 9. Aggression in Brain Injury, Aging, and Neurodegenerative Disorders / Mark P. Mattson -- 10. Environmental Factors and Aggression in Nonhuman Primates / Michael Lawrence Wilson -- 11. Aggression, Biology, and Context: Deja Vu All Over Again? / Rebecca M. Young and Evan Balaban -- 12. The Family Environment in Eary Life and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults / Sven Barnow and Harald-J. Freyberger -- 13. Television and Movies, Rock Music and Music Videos, and Computer and Video Games: Understanding and Preventing Learned Violence in the Information Age / Susan Villani and Nandita Joshi -- 14. Social Drinking and Aggression / Kathryn Graham -- 15. Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Childhood Aggressions / Cynthia Hudley -- 16. Pharmacological Intervention in Aggression / Debra V. McQuade, R. Joffree Barrnett and Bryan H. King.

ISBN

158829188X (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2002032942
• R7-449745

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries