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creators_name: Rota, Giuseppina
creators_name: Pellegrini, Silvia
creators_name: Pietrini, Pietro
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creators_id: pietro.pietrini@imtlucca.it
title: The anti-social brain: Novel insights from neuroscience and molecular biology
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subjects: RC0321
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: Aggressiveness, Psychopathy, Neuroimaging, Behavioral Genetics, Free-Will
abstract: Human beings are social animals. Life in society requires individuals to modulate their behavior accordingly to the norms that rule social contexts. Despite being generally sanctioned, violence remains a major issue worldwide. Advances in neuroscience and molecular biology are shedding new light on the biological mechanisms that underlie poor inhibitory control in impulsive aggression and the lack of empathy and emotional resonance in predatory violence. The increase in neuroscientific knowledge on the biological underpinnings of impulse control, moral judgment and social behavior may contribute to a wider understanding of the notion of free-will and responsibility. Here, we briefly discuss novel findings on the neurobiological correlates of aggressive and antisocial behavior and their potential ethical, forensic and political implications.
date: 2014
date_type: published
publication: Politica & Società
number: 2
publisher: Il Mulino
pagerange: 201-220
id_number: 10.4476/77100
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2240-7901
official_url: http://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.4476/77100
citation:   Rota, Giuseppina and Pellegrini, Silvia and Pietrini, Pietro  The anti-social brain: Novel insights from neuroscience and molecular biology.  Politica & Società (2).  pp. 201-220.  ISSN 2240-7901      (2014)