https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2003.10525
Biological Bases of the Aggressive Behaviour
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The aggressive behaviour is common to all animal species, at least from fish onwards. It can be defined as the execution of actions, from threatening gestures to real attacks - addressed to animals belonging to either the same or a different species. The study of the physiological mechanisms laying behind this behaviour is supported by methods based on either ablation or stimulation of some determined brain structures.This is a really useful approach in order to establish which pathways and nerve centres are involved in the aggressive behaviour (mesencephalon, hypothalamus, amygdala, Papez circuit). [...]
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