scholarly journals Mujeres violentas y/o delincuentes: una visión desde la perspectiva biopsicosocial

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Virginia Soldino ◽  
Ángel Romero-Martínez ◽  
Luis Moya-Albiol

Violence and/or delinquency in women have been masked to some extent by society. Thus, the main goal of this work is to deeply analyse the published works on these matters, in order to understand this phenomenon from a neurobiological perspective. Firstly, the theory of the cycle of violence as a facilitating mechanism of violence in women will be analysed, with a special emphasis on neuroanatomical correlates. Subsequently, the relation between drug consumption and violence in women will be explained. Finally, the main biological correlates known as facilitating mechanisms of violence in women will be exhaustively described. The main risk factors for the facilitation of violence and/or delinquency in women are mistreatment experiences during childhood and drug consumption. Furthermore, high levels of cortisol and testosterone and low levels of serotonin and oxytocin would be correlates of that violence. On the other hand, two types of aggressors have been described according to the response of the Autonomic Nervous System: the premeditated ones, who present a low reactivity, and the impulsive ones, who present a psychophysiological hyper-reactivity. As it is a complex and insufficiently studied issue, increasing the corpus of knowledge in this topic is necessary with the objective of developing effective programmes of treatment and/or prevention.

Author(s):  
J. Z. Young

There are not sufficient data available to allow any general statements about the earlier stages of evolution of the autonomic nervous system and of its various transmitter mechanisms. In the previous paper (Young, 1980) it was shown that control of the stomach of elasmobranchs is largely by the inhibitory action of the sympathetic nerves, probably mediated by 5-HT. In teleostean fishes on the other hand control seems to be mainly by the cholinergic excitatory action of the vagus, especially in the more advanced (acanthopterygian) groups (Grove & Campbell, 1979a, b; Fänge & Grove, 1979).


Author(s):  
O. Zhurenko ◽  
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V. Karpovskyi ◽  
V. Zhurenko ◽  
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The tone of the autonomic nervous system is considered on the one hand as one of the manifestations of homeostasis, and on the other hand, as one of the mechanisms of its regulation. The predominance of the tonic effect of the parasympathetic and sympathetic departments of the autonomic nervous system is defined as vagotonia and sympathicotonia. The tone of the autonomic nervous system in cows was determined using a trigeminal vagal test. According to the results, the animal was classified as normotonic, sympathicotonic or vagotonic. The tone of the autonomic nervous system in cows in summer inversely correlated with copper content in whole blood (r=-0.62; p<0.05) and blood cells (r=-0.58; p<0.05). In winter, the correlation of the tone of the autonomic nervous system in cows with its content in whole blood, serum and blood cells did not reach significant values (r=-0.21–0.36). Increased tone of the parasympathetic department of the autonomic nervous system, regardless of the season, had almost no effect on copper content in serum, whole blood and its cells (ղ²x=0.01–0.23). At the same time, sympathicotonia in summer has a significant impact only on the copper content in blood cells – ղ²x=0.58 (p<0.05), while in winter this effect increased significantly (ղ²x=0.91; p<0.001). The multifactor analysis of variance revealed the dependence of copper content on the tone of the autonomic nervous system and the season. However, the vegetative status of cows had a significant impact on its content only in blood cells (F=8.59>FU=4.41; p<0.01), and the season limited copper content only in whole blood (F=12.12>FU=3.55; p<0.01).


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Korovina ◽  
T. M. Zaporozhets

The purpose of our research was to estimate the brain blood supply level by rheoencephalography method in junior students of the Medical academy and to determine the blood supply links with the autonomic regulation state, behavioural and alimentary factors. Rheo-encephalographic study, research of the autonomic nervous system state, heart rate regulation and questioning of 17–29 year-old students have been conducted. Basic hemodynamic indices were normal in all surveyed students. Increase in body weight index enhanced the probability of the brain blood supply deterioration. Adaptation mechanisms tension was accompanied by reduction of the rheographic index. Higher blood filling of the brain vessels corersponded to higher ratio “blood minute volume / due blood minute volume” defined taking into account the system arterial pressure. The quantity of links with indicators of the autonomic nervous system state was limited. Nonlinear dependence of the rheographic index on the Kerdo vegetative index was observed: the rheographic index value was the lowest in students with the autonomic balance by the Kerdo vegetative index; it was the highest in the group with the sympathetic prevalence. Risk factor of blood filling decrease was the reduction in the diet variety when foodstuffs of different groups were included into the diet less than twice a week, or they were excluded from the diet completely. Positive correlation of blood supply was observed more often with frequent consumption of fish, vegetables, and fresh fruits. Increase in the regular alcohol intake experience promoted decrease in brain blood supply and increase in asymmetries of blood supply indicators. The effect of alcohol was essential, despite young age of surveyed students and low level of alcohol consumption. Increase in the experience and intensity of smoking was accompanied by deterioration of brain blood supply indicators. Students with the best blood supply had the better academic progress. Observed multiple correlations of blood supply indicators with behavioural factors allowed to assert that reduction of risk factors (control of body weight, variety and full value of a diet, refusal of smoking, alcohol restriction even below doses which are considered safe) would allow to improve the brain blood supply.


2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 1444-1456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve W Cole ◽  
Margaret E Kemeny ◽  
John L Fahey ◽  
Jerome A Zack ◽  
Bruce D Naliboff

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keren Politi ◽  
Keren Kaminer ◽  
Udi Nussinovitch

Heart rate variability (HRV) is an accepted clinical tool for evaluating autonomic nervous system function and a marker of adverse cardiac outcome. Although 5 min long HRV recordings are considered methodologically acceptable, it remains impractical in most clinical settings. Also, while some ultrashort HRV (usHRV) parameters were found useful in healthy individuals, their applicability to patients with cardiovascular risk factors is largely unknown. Therefore, our goal was to evaluate the reliability of ultrashort ECG (usECG) indices for HRV among patients with hypertension. One-hundred and two patients with essential hypertension were included. HRV was recorded for 5 min in strictly monitored settings. HRV parameters from randomly chosen 1 min and 10 s series were analyzed. Excellent correlations were found between 1 min SD of RR interval (SDNN) (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) 0.973), 10 s SDNN (ICC 0.92) and 5 min SDNN results. An excellent correlation was also found between 1 min root  mean square of successive differences in RR intervals (RMSSD) (ICC 0.992), 10 s RMSSD (ICC 0.982) and 5 min RMSSD. Logarithmic transformation of ultrashort 1 min HRV-triangular index using the natural logarithm (Ln) also had excellent correlation with 5 min measurements (ICC 0.9). Also, excellent correlations were found between 10 s and 1 min Ln(RMSSD), 10 s Ln(RMSSD) and 5 min measurements. Other HRV parameters measured from 1 min and 10 s periods showed lower correlations. In conclusion, evaluation of SDNN, RMSSD or Ln(RMSSD) from 10 s ECG recordings can be used to estimate autonomic nervous system function in patients with hypertension. These appealing markers can be readily calculated from any standard ECG tracing. The prognostic significance of ultrashort SDNN and ultrashort RMSSD in patients with cardiovascular risk factors needs to be determined in future prospective cohort studies.


2010 ◽  
Vol 212 (1) ◽  
pp. 292-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmine Pizzi ◽  
Lamberto Manzoli ◽  
Stefano Mancini ◽  
Gigliola Bedetti ◽  
Fiorella Fontana ◽  
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