aggression and violencewe will use

aggression and violence
we will use the term aggression to refer to the intentional of hostile or destructive acts toward another individual. Predatory aggression is premeditated,or planned in advance,goal-directed,and relatively unemotional. In contrast, impulsive aggression occurs immediately in response to some provocative stimulus that produces anger or fear (silver,2008). Different patterns of brain activity appear to be involved in these different types of aggression (Mobbs, Lau, Jones, & Frith, 2007)
while recognizing the significant contributions of learning and other environmental influences to aggression, we can idebtify many biological correlates of violent behavior. violent behavior will occur when sub cortical structures, in particular the amygdala, respond strongly to provocative stimuli without sufficient inhibition from the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex(siever,2008). In other words,agressive behavior will not occur as long as aggressive "drives" originating in subcortical areas experience "top-down" control byfrontal cortical areas. when this top-down inhibition is insuffucient, violence will result.