A new neuroimaging study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that people with a long history of violent behavior have more gray matter in certain areas of the brain.
To reach this conclusion, the researchers identified in several male subjects, aged between 23 and 54 years, what was the brain morphology related to the abuse of certain substances, such as alcohol or drugs, which on many occasions accompanies patients. violent behaviors. In this way they were able to observe that, regardless of whether a subject abuses certain substances, violent subjects have more gray matter in certain brain regions than non-violent subjects, specifically in mesolimbic areas , where dopamine is released, and that previous studies relate with desire and reward , as well as with antisocial behaviors .
