TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Differences in brain circuitry for appetitive and reactive aggression as revealed by realistic auditory scripts
JO  - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience
A1  - Moran, James K.
A1  - Weierstall, Roland
A1  - Elbert, Thomas
SP  - 425
EP  - 425
VL  - 8
IS  - 
N2  - Aggressive behavior is thought to divide into two motivational elements: The first being a self-defensively motivated aggression against threat and a second, hedonically motivated "appetitive" aggression. Appetitive aggression is the less understood of the two, often only researched within abnormal psychology. Our approach is to understand it as a universal and adaptive response, and examine the functional neural activity of ordinary men (N = 50) presented with an imaginative listening task involving a murderer describing a kill. We manipulated motivational context in a between-subjects design to evoke appetitive or reactive aggression, against a neutral control, measuring activity with Magnetoencephalography (MEG). <br><br>RESULTS show differences in left frontal regions in delta (2-5 Hz) and alpha band (8-12 Hz) for aggressive conditions and right parietal delta activity differentiating appetitive and reactive aggression. These results validate the distinction of reward-driven appetitive aggression from reactive aggression in ordinary populations at the level of functional neural brain circuitry.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1662-5153
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00425
ID  - ref1
ER  -