Violence and the BrainReviews the structure and function of those parts of the brain that govern emotional behavior and describes the inherited and acquired forms of brain disease which may disrupt the regulatory mechanisms of the emotional brain. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Our Emotional Brain | 13 |
Rage Anger and Fear | 26 |
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