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BS 195 Neuroscience of Emotion with David Anderson
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
How Does Emotional Status Control Aggressive Behavior?
Emotion is a sort of fan in and fan out function for the brain. Hunger tells the brain to search for, find and consume food; thirst tell the brain to find and consume water. But there are a lot of types of defensive behaviour that an animal can exhibit when it's in a fierce state. We've been able to identify a pattern of activity in part of the hypothalamus that we know causally controls aggressive behavior. And this activity ramps up in the brain of a male mouse as it approaches an intruder in its territory - then starts to transition to dominance mounting.
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