The Physiology of Aggression and Defeat: Proceedings of a symposium held during the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Dallas, Texas, in December 1968 PDF
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TH E PHYSIOLOGY OF AGGRESSION AND DEFEAT THE PHYSIOLOGY OF AGGRESSION AND DEFEAT Proceedings of a symposium held during the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Dallas, Texas, in December 1968 Edited by Basil E. Eleftheriou Staff Scientist The Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor, Maine and John Paul Scott Director, Center tor Research on Social Behavior Bowling Green University Bowling Green, Ohio 9? PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK-LONDON • 1971 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-164505 ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-1934-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-1932-0 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4684-1932-0 © 1971 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1971 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 227 West 17th Street, New York, N. Y. 10011 United Kingdom edition published by Plenum Press, London A Division of Plenum Publishing Company, Ltd. Davis House (4th Floor), 8 Scrubs Lane, Harlesden, NWI0 6SE, England All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher PREFACE This short volume contains papers presented at a special symposium, "The Physiology of Aggression and Defeat," during the MAS meetings in Dallas, Texas, in December, 1968. At a time when we need to understand the basic mechan isms underlying various forms of aggression, these papers report progress toward this goal. Although the many social, psychologic and economic causal mechanisms contributing to aggression have been reasonably well-understood for a number of years, the correlated physiological, biochemical, endocrinological and neurochemical changes taking place in an organism that is either the aggressor or the recipient of aggression have not been studied extensively, and the limited available data in the past have often been in con siderable conflict. These eight papers demonstrate that complex interac tions take place among the psychological, social, physio logical, biochemical, endocrinological and neurochemical factors involved in aggression and defeat. The general indications are that while the aggressor learns to survive and adapts readily to the fighting process, the vanquished, if he does not die, maintains an existence highlighted by severe and extensive changes in all physiologic and psycho logic systems. We cannot make sweeping generalizations to the human organism from the results of non-human animal experimentation. Nevertheless, it is well-known that in all animals, including the human, similar basic biochemi cal systems are involved. We hope that the data presented in these eight papers may contribute to the better understanding of the physiology and psychology of the patterns of aggression and defeat in v vi PREFACE a manner that will eventually help to reduce and eliminate the factors that contribute to the propagation of such events. Bar Harbor, Maine 1971 B.E.E. J.P.S. CONTENTS Contributors. . . • • . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • • • . • . . . . • • . •• ix Symposium: The Physiology of Aggression and Defeat An Introduction.......................... 1 Basil E. Eleftheriou and J. P. Scott Theoretical Issues Concerning the Origin and Causes of Fighting................ .••. ..•••••.••••••••. . ...• 11 J. p. Scott Steroid Hormones and Aggressive Behavior in Mammals .. 43 F. H. Bronson and C. Desjardins Effects of Aggression and Defeat on Brain Macromolecules....... .. ...•..•... .••••••••...... .••.. 65 Basil E. Eleftheriou Isolation, Reactivity and Aggression: Evidence for an Involvement of Brain Catecholamines and Serotonin. 91 Annemarie S. Welch and Bruce L. Welch Aggression, Noxiousness, and Brain Stimulation in Unrestra ined Rhesus Monkeys.......................... 143 R. Plotnik, D. Mir, and J. M. R. Delgado A Preliminary Physiological Model of Aggressive Behavior ...••.••...••..•.•.•.....•..•••••••.••..•.... 223 K. E. Moyer vii viii CONTENTS Altered Adrenal Function in Two Combat Situations in Viet Nam.......................................... 265 Peter G. Bourne, M.D. Aggression: Summary and Overview ..••.•••••••......... 291 Bryan W. Robinson Sub j ect Index .. 307 0 • 0 0 0 •••••••••••••• 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• CONTRIBUTORS PETER G. BOURNE Director, South Central Community Mental Health Center Atlanta, Georgia F. H. BRONSON Department of Zoology University of Texas Austin, Texas J. M. R. DELGADO Professor of Physiology Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut C. DESJARDINS Department of Pharmacology Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma ix x CONTRIBUTORS BASIL E. ELEFTHERIOU The Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor, Maine D. MIR Catedra de Fisiologia Faculdad de Medicina Avenida Sanchez Piz Juan Seville, Spain K. E. MOYER Department of Psychology Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania R. PLOTNIK Department of Psychology San Diego State College San Diego, California BRYAN W. ROBINSON Department of Psychology Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida J. P. SCOTT Department of Psychology Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio CONTRIBUTORS xi ANNEMARIE S. WELCH Maryland Psychiatric Research Center Baltimore, Maryland BRUCE L. WELCH Chief Psychophysiology Research Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and Senior Investigator Environmental Neurobiology Friends of Psychiatric Research, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
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