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Is impulsive violence an addiction? The Habit Hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2015

Stephen M. Stahl
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Abstract

Impulsive violence may be the behavioral consequence of inefficient information processing within specific neuronal networks. Analogous to the hypothetical pathophysiology of addiction, maladaptations within reward pathways may shift goal-directed behaviors to impulsive reactions and then to compulsive habits, in order to create impulsive violence.

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Brainstorms
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 20 , Special Issue 3: Violence in the Psychiatric Setting , June 2015 , pp. 165 - 169
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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