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mitters. These chemicals reach the brain, excite the nervous system and compel the person to indulge in violence.2
Judith Wurtman, a nutritionalist at Massachusetts Institute of technology USA, has been pioneer in this field. According to her, changes in the behavior were found by the changes in neurotransmitters neuromodulating substances in the brain. Their levels change according to the type of diet. Thus diet influences the behavior pattern of Brain.3 Several studies also suggest that threatening environments can trigger serotonin and nor adrenaline imbalances in genetically susceptible people, laying the bio chemical foundation for a life time of violent behavior. Such ominous trends as the collapse of the family structure, the surge in single parenting, persistent poverty, and chronic drug abuse can actually tip brain chemistry into an aggressive mode an effect that was once thought impossible.4
"If serotonin acts as a brake on impulses, noradrenalin, the brain's alarm hormone, acts as an accelerator. If people are leaving alone and your brakes are lousy your serotonin level is low. But if people are starting to agitate you and your accelerator starts to rev, and your brakes are bad, you can't stop your self. You lash out." Scientist call the ability to restrain aggression impulse control and the breaking power depends on both genetic inheritance and environmental experiences."
Diagnosis
A deeper analysis of brain chemistry through brain scans and testing on the regulation of hormones and neurotransmitters is good tool to find the physiological cause of the violent behavior.
The human brain has been slow to give the secrets until recently the mechanization that give rise to our thoughts, memories, feelings and perceptions, mere impossible to examine their nature could only be inferred through effects. Locating the precise brain activity that creates specific experience and behavioral responses is currently engaging some of the finest scientists in the world. Different types of brain cells secrete different neurotransmitters. Each brain chemical works in widely spread but fairly specific brain locations and may have a different effect according to where it is activated. Some fifty different neurotransmitters have been identified,
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