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Violent Behavior - Causes and Remedy
Samani Chaitya Prajna
Can it really be possible for an unconscious person to pull a gun, do whatever needs to be done to prime it, take aim and shoot - all while the victim presumably shouts and screams and frails? If you are to believe the perpetrators, the answer is yes. Recent research into the neurobiology of what is probably our most powerful emotion--anger - suggests that some of them, at least, are telling the truth'. Violence is state of an illness, a disease; non-violence is state of health. The target organ or an organ in effect in this disease is brain as the disease of violence germinates from infected brain. A good treatment is that which kills the disease from its roots rather than treating only symptoms. Therefore before treating any disease, one must know three aspects of the disease - causes, symptoms and the method of treating the disease. Causes As any other disease violence is also caused due to two main causes namely, deficiency or defect in heredity --- nature and deficiency or defect in environment- nurture. When it comes to the building of the human brain, nature supplies construction materials and nurture serves as the architect that puts them together.
Many people think that only others cause violence, but studies reveal that it arises within us. It results from interaction of various chemical substances ingested by men and animals. These chemicals are called neuro-excitory hormones and neurotrans
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