Androgens are hormones that contribute to growth and reproduction in both men and women
- Androgen and aggression in animals
- Androgen and aggression in humans
- Some complicated variables in the relationship between androgens and aggression

Androgens seem to increase aggression

Aggressive behavior is modulated by neurotransmitter systems.
- Negative correlation between serotonin and aggression
- GABA and aggression
- Ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)

Aggression has several neurochemical correlates

- A controversy: some intense violence are derived from temporal lobe disorders (emotional dyscontrol syndrome)
- psychopath
- Biological studies of aggression are controversial

A topic of controversy

Aggression is defined as any behavior intended to cause harm or pain to another person. It is a core topic in social psychology, encompassing a range of actions with different underlying motivations.

Aggression

- Aggression
- Androgens seem to increase aggression
- Aggression has several neurochemical correlates
- A topic of controversy

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- Theories of emotion
- Evolutionary viewpoint of emotions
- How many emotions are there
- Brain circuits for different emotions
- Neural circuitry of violence and aggression
- Stress and body responses
- Emotions and the immune system

Subjects in emotions, aggression and stress in the brain

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Behavioral Neuroscience 8th Edition

- Electrical stimulation of the brain, brain lesions, and neural circuitry affect emotion.



Brain circuits for different emotions

- Examining the kinds of emotions by examining different kinds of facial expressions

How many emotions do we experience

Neural circuitry of violence and aggression

Theories of emotion are frameworks developed to explain how the various components of emotion, such as physiological arousal, psychological appraisal, and subjective experience, interact with one another to produce an emotional state.

Theories of Emotion

- The stress response
- Individual differences in stress responses

Stress and Body Responses

- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- The Immune System
- Psychological Stress and Immunity

Emotions and the Immune System

- Darwin's perspective
- Redican's perspective
- Evolutionary psychology

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