title: Medical aspects of violence.
abstract: Physicians see violence in beaten wives, battered children, rage reactions, murder, and suicide. They should recognize that it may be a symptom of disease if it is unprovoked or bizarre, or is associated with impaired consciousness, confusion or irrationality. Violence in episodic trance-like states suggests limbic disease (temporal lobe lesions, psychomotor epilepsy, or "dyscontrol syndrome"); in association with personality change, dementia, or psychosis, it indicates cortical disease (structural, toxic, or idiopathic).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008032:Limbic System; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014754:Violence