- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Genetic Aspects of Aggressions in Nonhuman Animals
- 2 Human Quantitative Genetics of Aggression
- 3 Crustacean Models of Aggression
- 4 Brain Serotonin and Aggressive Disposition in Humans and Nonhuman Primates
- 5 Monoamines, GABA, Glutamate, and Aggression
- 6 Nitric Oxide and Aggression
- 7 Neuroplasticity and Aggression: An Interaction Between Vasopressin and Serotonin
- 8 Contexts and Ethology of Vertebrate Aggression: Implications for the Evolution of Hormone-Behavior Interactions
- 9 Androgens and Aggression
- 10 The Role of Estrogen Receptors in the Regulation of Aggressive Behaviors
- 11 Maternal Aggression
- 12 Stress and Aggressive Behaviors
- 13 Conditioned Defeat
- 14 Development of Aggression
- 15 Neurobiology of Aggression in Children
- 16 Drugs of Abuse and Aggression
- 17 Psychopharmacology of Human Aggression: Laboratory and Clinical Studies
- 18 The Psychophysiology of Human Antisocial Behavior
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Nitric Oxide and Aggression
Nitric Oxide and Aggression
- Chapter:
- (p.150) 6 Nitric Oxide and Aggression
- Source:
- Biology of Aggression
- Author(s):
Silvana Chiavegatto
Gregory E. Demas
Randy J. Nelson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter reviews the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on aggressive behavior. Topics discussed include NO and aggression in Down syndrome and affective disorders, interaction with serotonin, interaction with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and environmental contributions to NO-mediated aggression.
Keywords: aggressive behavior, affective disorders, serotonin, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Genetic Aspects of Aggressions in Nonhuman Animals
- 2 Human Quantitative Genetics of Aggression
- 3 Crustacean Models of Aggression
- 4 Brain Serotonin and Aggressive Disposition in Humans and Nonhuman Primates
- 5 Monoamines, GABA, Glutamate, and Aggression
- 6 Nitric Oxide and Aggression
- 7 Neuroplasticity and Aggression: An Interaction Between Vasopressin and Serotonin
- 8 Contexts and Ethology of Vertebrate Aggression: Implications for the Evolution of Hormone-Behavior Interactions
- 9 Androgens and Aggression
- 10 The Role of Estrogen Receptors in the Regulation of Aggressive Behaviors
- 11 Maternal Aggression
- 12 Stress and Aggressive Behaviors
- 13 Conditioned Defeat
- 14 Development of Aggression
- 15 Neurobiology of Aggression in Children
- 16 Drugs of Abuse and Aggression
- 17 Psychopharmacology of Human Aggression: Laboratory and Clinical Studies
- 18 The Psychophysiology of Human Antisocial Behavior
- Author Index
- Subject Index
