[Neurobiology of excess self-defense use. Case report with summary of neuroscientific principles].
"Excess of self-defence", from the forensic-psychiatric point of view, is a hybrid between a crime of passion and a spontaneous retaliation. The Criminal Code puts under threat of penalty exceeding actions of self-defence, but it grants exemption from punishment to a person exceeding the limits in an excusable state of excitement. Going out from a case report, the author elucidates the problem of determining the degree of diminished responsibility. In order to do so, he points out the alternative pathways of affect-driven information-processing in the human central nervous system according to today's neuroscientific state of knowledge.
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D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003415:Crime / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged