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This section explains different types of violence and explains the affective and predatory violence. The affective violence is characterized by high levels of autonomic arousal and emotions due to a perceived imminent threat. Predatory violence is characterized as an absence of autonomic arousal, emotion, but with greater planning and a lack of perceived threat. In addition, the affective and predatory violence types are a continuum of “bimodal distribution.”
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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which impacts the brain. It is associated with a number of disorders including Parkinson’s and Schizophrenia.
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Serotonin is a neurotransmitter associated with a number of cognitive disorders, namely, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
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The cholinergic (acetylcholine) stimulation system is associated with arousal and memory and the sleep/waking cycle.
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Hoffer, T., Hargreaves-Cormany, H., Muirhead, Y., Meloy, J.R. (2018). Meloy’s Bimodal Theory of Affective (Reactive) and Predatory (Instrumental) Violence. In: Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_7
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