Environmental Influences, the Developing Brain, and Aggressive Behavior

Environmental Influences , the Developing Brain , and Aggressive Behavior

Finding a Model for the Relationship between Environmental Components and Students’ Aggressive Behavior in Schools

Nowadays, adolescent aggression is a concern for parents because it will lead to future social, psychological, behavioral and educational problems. In addition to genetic, family, economic and cultural factors, one of the factors contributing to aggressive behavior is environment. Due to the fact that school is the first place where adolescents socialize with their peers, the school environment...

Running head: GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES Genetic and Environmental Influences on Prosocial Behavior

The obvious importance to human social functioning of prosocial behavior (behavior intended to benefit others) has led to extensive research on the sources of individual differences in prosociality, empathy, helping, cooperation, and altruism. At the species level, this markedly human trait has been explained in genetic terms. At the individual level, however, only about a dozen studies have di...

Single-gene influences on brain and behavior.

As traditional behavioral genetics analysis merges with neurogenetics, the field of neurobehavioral genetics, focusing on single-gene effects, comes into being. New biotechnology has greatly accelerated gene discovery and the study of gene function in relation to brain and behavior. More than 7,000 genes in mice and 10,000 in humans have now been documented, and extensive information about the ...

Visceral Influences on Brain and Behavior

Mental processes and their neural substrates are intimately linked to the homeostatic control of internal bodily state. There are a set of distinct interoceptive pathways that directly and indirectly influence brain functions. The anatomical organization of these pathways and the psychological/behavioral expressions of their influence appear along discrete, evolutionarily conserved dimensions t...