A select group of perpetrators of domestic violence: evidence of decreased metabolism in the right hypothalamus and reduced relationships between cortical/subcortical brain structures in position emission tomography - George, David T; Rawlings, Robert R; Williams, Wendol A; Phillips, Monte J; Fong, Grace; Kerich, Michael; Momenan, Reza; Umhau, John C; Hommer, Daniel (Psychiatry research, 2004)
Keywords: Adult; Affectivity. Emotion; Aggression - psychology; Alcoholism; Alcoholism - diagnosis; Amygdala; Amygdala - metabolism; Basal Ganglia - metabolism; Biological and medical sciences; Cerebral Cortex - metabolism; Depression - diagnosis; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Domestic Violence - psychology; Fear; Fear-induced aggression; Fight or flight; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Functional Laterality - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Hypothalamus - metabolism; Male; Personality. Affectivity; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Radiopharmaceuticals; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tomography, Emission-Computed; Amygdala; Alcoholism; Fight or flight; Fear-induced aggression; Human; Fear; Investigation method; Violence; Central nervous system; Hypothalamus; Experimental study; Encephalon; Aggressiveness; Emission tomography