Citation

Bogerts B, Möller-Leimkühler AM. Nervenarzt, Der 2013; 84(11): 1329-1344.

Vernacular Title

Neurobiologische Ursachen und psychosoziale Bedingungen individueller Gewalt.

Affiliation

Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Otto-von-Guerike-Universität Magdeburg, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Deutschland, bogerts@med.ovgu.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00115-012-3610-x

PMID

22911318

Abstract

Individual and collective acts of violence are mainly a male phenomenon caused by complex interactions of neurobiological and psychosocial factors. Amazingly this topic has not yet played a major role in the clinical psychiatric literature although the disastrous consequences are clearly visible everywhere and although aggression also belongs to the archaic human emotions, such as anxiety, depression and euphoria.The article gives an integrative overview on epidemiological, neurobiological, genetic, neuropathological, neurochemical/hormonal, developmental and psychosocial theories on aggression and violence, including sociocognitive models, hedonistic aspects of violence, effects of violence in the media and processes of childhood socialization.Better knowledge of the broad spectrum of these intensively interacting biological and psychosocial components resulting in violence not only improves our understanding of this calamitous psychosyndrome but can also lead to more effective preventive measures.

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