Serotonin and Human Violence

Authors: Markus J P Kruesi Teresa Jacobsen

Publish Date: 1997

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 189-205

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to review evolving evidence for the possibility of environmental mediators of relationships between serotonin and violence in human children and adolescents This chapter does not ask whether there are environmental mediators of violence a variety of evidence suggests that environmental mediation of violence occurs Tolan Guerra 1994 and that interactions between biology and environmental events increase the risk of crime Raine et al 1994 1996 Rather this paper focuses upon the possibility of environmental mediators of the relationship between serotonin and violence

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