title: Aggression and violence: perspectives on integrating animal and human research approaches.
abstract: Aggression and violence are concerns that engage us across society as moral and cultural issues. They are also critical issues for mental health research--both for survivors and for understanding how such behaviors occur. Interpersonal violence often explodes in deliberate acts of physical force leaving survivors behind with a diminished sense of control that is often shadowed by persistent fear and anxiety. The treatment of the victims is a clear and immediate concern; from their perspectives the medical consequences require effective attention whether they suffered as a result of acts of nature, mental disease, ideology, or combinations of these. At the same time preventing violent behavior from happening in the first place is a compelling challenge for public health research.
authors: National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892-9637, USA. ilederhe@mail.nih.gov
authors: Israel I
authors: II
authors: Lederhendler
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*