Citation

Beck A, Heinz AJ, Heinz A. Curr. Top. Behav. Neurosci. 2013; 17: 443-474.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/7854_2013_258

PMID

24338662

Abstract

Alcohol Alcohol -related violence violence , a longstanding, serious, and pervasive social problem, has provided researchers from diverse disciplines with a model to study individual differences in aggressive and violent behavior. Of course, not all alcohol alcohol consumers will become aggressive after drinking and similarly, not all individuals with alcohol alcohol use disorders will exhibit such untoward behavior. Rather, the relationship is best conceptualized as complex and indirect and is influenced by a constellation of social, cognitive cognitive , and biological factors that differ greatly from one person to the next. Animal experiments and human studies have elucidated how these mechanisms and processes explain (i.e., mediate) the relation between acute and chronic alcohol alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior. Further, the rich body of literature on alcohol alcohol -related aggression aggression has allowed for identification of several potential high-yield targets for clinical intervention, e.g., cognitive cognitive training for executive dysfunction; psychopharmacology targeting affect and threat perception, which may also generalize to other psychiatric conditions characterized by aggressive behavior. Here we aim to integrate pertinent findings, derived from different methodological approaches and theoretical models, which explain heterogeneity in aggressive responses to alcohol alcohol . A translational platform is provided, highlighting common factors linking alcohol alcohol and aggression aggression that warrant further, interdisciplinary study in order to reduce the devastating social impact of this phenomenon.

Language: en