Characterization Of Perpetrators Of Domestic Violence

家庭暴力施暴者的特征

• 批准号: 6983065
• 负责人: David T George
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6983065
• 关键词: aggression; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; bioimaging /biomedical imaging; brain imaging /visualization /scanning; brain mapping; central neural pathway /tract; clinical research; disease /disorder etiology; domestic violence; fear; human subject; mental disorder diagnosis; positron emission tomography; psychobiology; psychopathology; psychopharmacology; self destructive behavior; spouse abuse; violence

Domestic violence is a problem of major proportions in the United States. The majority of studies pertaining to the etiology of domestic violence have focused on psychosocial parameters with little emphasis on biological factors. We analyzed data obtained from PET imagining and found that perpetrators of domestic violence have decreased glucose metabolism in the hypothalamus compared to controls. Perpetrators also showed decreased correlations in glucose metabolism between several cortical and subcortical structures and the amygdala. This published data provides the basis for us to integrate the behaviors and psychiatric diagnoses of perpetrators of domestic violence with abnormalities in the structures and pathways that control the expression of fear-induced aggression. Currently, we have sent a manuscript for review and publication proposing a model which attributes many of the behaviors demonstrated by perpetrators of domestic violence as being conditioned fear responses (i.e., fight, flight, shutdown) or conditioned fear avoidant responses (i.e., alcohol consumption, self-injurious behaviors). It is our goal that this model will form the basis for future research in order to better understand and to treat perpetrators of domestic violence.

家庭暴力是美国的一个主要问题。大多数有关家庭暴力病因的研究都集中在心理社会参数上，很少强调生物因素。 我们分析了从 PET 成像中获得的数据，发现与对照组相比，家庭暴力施暴者的下丘脑葡萄糖代谢降低。肇事者还表现出几个皮质和皮质下结构与杏仁核之间葡萄糖代谢的相关性降低。这项发表的数据为我们将家庭暴力施暴者的行为和精神诊断与控制恐惧引发的攻击性表达的结构和途径的异常相结合提供了基础。 目前，我们已发送一份手稿供审查和出版，提出了一个模型，该模型将家庭暴力施暴者表现出的许多行为归因于条件性恐惧反应（即战斗、逃跑、关闭）或条件性恐惧回避反应（即饮酒） ，自残行为）。我们的目标是，该模型将成为未来研究的基础，以便更好地理解和治疗家庭暴力的施暴者。