A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health
outcomes, often measured as deaths and hospitalizations. This literature has focused less …

In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

The symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) involve impairments in
prefrontal cortical top-down regulation of attention and behavior. All current pharmacological …

When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of
male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that he accorded so much …

Background Although traditional wisdom suggests that baseline levels of testosterone (T)
promote aggressive behavior, decades of research have produced findings that have been …

A large body of evidence indicates that individual differences in baseline concentrations of
testosterone (T) are only weakly correlated with human aggression. Importantly, T …

Being different multifactorial forms of psychopathology, aggression, depression and suicidal
behavior, which is considered to be violent aggression directed against the self, have …

FR Volkmar (ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, https://doi. org/10.1007/978-
3-319-91280-6 home that may be poisonous. Both at home and school, the Poison Control …

Although adverse early life experiences have been found to increase lifetime risk to develop
violent behaviors, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these long-term effects …

Exposure to prolonged stress in critical developmental periods induces heightened
vulnerability to psychiatric disorders, which may have sex-specific consequences. Here we …