Abstract
This chapter reviews neurobiological risk factors for aggression in children. It begins by considering two general positions that have received considerable attention with respect to aggression in children: the frontal lobe and fear dysfunction positions. It then considers a fundamental difficulty with these types of general account of aggression in children-that they implicitly assume all aggression is mediated by the same neural architecture. It argues that a distinction must be made between reactive and instrumental aggression. The neurobiological risk factors for reactive and instrumental aggression are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Biology of Aggression |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199865444 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0195168763, 9780195168761 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2005 |
Keywords
- Aggressive behavior
- Fear dysfunction
- Frontal lobe
- Instrumental aggression
- Reactive aggression
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
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Blair, R. J. R., Peschardt, K. S., Budhani, S., & Pine, D. S. (2005). Neurobiology of Aggression in Children. In Biology of Aggression Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195168761.003.0015