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Is impulsive violence an addiction? The Habit Hypothesis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2015
Abstract
Impulsive violence may be the behavioral consequence of inefficient information processing within specific neuronal networks. Analogous to the hypothetical pathophysiology of addiction, maladaptations within reward pathways may shift goal-directed behaviors to impulsive reactions and then to compulsive habits, in order to create impulsive violence.
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- Brainstorms
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- CNS Spectrums , Volume 20 , Special Issue 3: Violence in the Psychiatric Setting , June 2015 , pp. 165 - 169
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- © Cambridge University Press 2015
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