Possible causes of violent behavior explored in section C EN
American Chemical Societyfaulty brain chemistry, brain damage, genetic defects, a healthy psychological environment to take them individually or mix them together and may have the right ingredients for violent behavior, reports of various researchers.
With 1.4 million violent crimes in the United States in 2000 after the Bureau of Justice Statistics, chemists, doctors, sociologists and other experts are hard to find the causes of the misbehavior of some therapies, says Chemical Engineering News.
CEN, the weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, the largest scientific society in the world, an in depth look at the important research in this area is on June 2 edition.
For decades researchers have known that violent behavior is linked
to the serotonin neurotransmitter system in the brain, said Emil F. Coccaro, MD, Director of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology Research Unit at the University of Chicago.A neurotransmitter is a chemical that nerves transmit impulses through the nervous system support. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter in the brain that acts as a brake on impulsiveness.
Persons with normal or above average serotonin exercise restraint and think, said J. Dee Higley, Ph.D., a researcher at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
People with low levels, on the contrary, the act first and think later and gets in trouble, said Higley. The problem is that if you are impulsive and have short circuit and is obtained in an environment that is likely to cause
violence, which will be more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior.In one study, Coccaro sought to increase levels of serotonin, which reduces its uptake by neurons (the basic unit of the nervous system), using the drug Prozac. This therapy allows those who were moderately aggressive. The researcher intends to compare Prozac Depakote, which also increases serotonin levels in the treatment of this group.
Meanwhile,
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