Characterization Of Perpetrators Of Domestic Violence

家庭暴力施暴者的特征

• 批准号: 6983065
• 负责人: David T George
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6983065
• 关键词: aggression; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; bioimaging /biomedical imaging; brain imaging /visualization /scanning; brain mapping; central neural pathway /tract; clinical research; disease /disorder etiology; domestic violence; fear; human subject; mental disorder diagnosis; positron emission tomography; psychobiology; psychopathology; psychopharmacology; self destructive behavior; spouse abuse; violence

Domestic violence is a problem of major proportions in the United States. The majority of studies pertaining to the etiology of domestic violence have focused on psychosocial parameters with little emphasis on biological factors. We analyzed data obtained from PET imagining and found that perpetrators of domestic violence have decreased glucose metabolism in the hypothalamus compared to controls. Perpetrators also showed decreased correlations in glucose metabolism between several cortical and subcortical structures and the amygdala. This published data provides the basis for us to integrate the behaviors and psychiatric diagnoses of perpetrators of domestic violence with abnormalities in the structures and pathways that control the expression of fear-induced aggression. Currently, we have sent a manuscript for review and publication proposing a model which attributes many of the behaviors demonstrated by perpetrators of domestic violence as being conditioned fear responses (i.e., fight, flight, shutdown) or conditioned fear avoidant responses (i.e., alcohol consumption, self-injurious behaviors). It is our goal that this model will form the basis for future research in order to better understand and to treat perpetrators of domestic violence.

家庭暴力在美国是一个严重的问题。大多数关于家庭暴力病因的研究都集中在社会心理因素上，很少强调生物学因素。