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Neurobiologie der Aggression

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Positionen der Psychiatrie

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Aggression ist ein weitverbreitetes soziales Verhalten, mit dem nahezu jeder irgendwann in seinem Leben konfrontiert wird, sei es als Täter, Opfer oder Beobachter (Renfrew 1997). Die Allgegenwart aggressiven Verhaltens im täglichen Leben und seine weltweit enormen sozialen und ökonomischen Kosten (Krug et al. 2002) verdeutlichen die Relevanz der Untersuchung von Ursachen und Folgen aggressiven Verhaltens. Obwohl Aggression schon seit jeher ein zentrales Thema der Psychologie und Psychiatrie darstellt, ist bisher nur wenig über ihre neurobiologischen Grundlagen bekannt. Im Allgemeinen wird davon ausgegangen, dass aggressives Verhalten multiple soziale, psychische und biologische Ursachen und Folgen hat (Anderson u. Bushman 2002). Dieses Kapitel versucht, einen kurzen Überblick über aktuelle Erkenntnisse der neurobiologischen Grundlagen von Aggression zu geben.

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Bertsch, K. (2012). Neurobiologie der Aggression. In: Schneider, F. (eds) Positionen der Psychiatrie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25476-5_15

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