The Biology of Aggression, Mating, & Arousal | Dr. David Anderson

My guest is David Anderson, PhD, a world expert in the science of
sexual behavior, violent aggression, fear and other motivated
states. Dr. Anderson is a Professor of Biology at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech), a member of the National Academy
of Sciences and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI). We discuss how states of mind (and body) arise
and persist and how they probably better explain human behavior
than emotions per se. We also discuss the many kinds of arousal
that create varying levels of pressure for certain behaviors to
emerge. We discuss different types of violent aggression and how
they are impacted by biological sex, gender, context, prior
experience, and hormones, and the neural interconnectedness of
fear, aggression and sexual behavior. We also discuss
peptides and their role in social isolation-induced anxiety
and aggression. Dr. Anderson also describes novel, potentially
powerful therapeutics for mental health. This episode should
interest anyone wanting to learn more about mental health, human
emotions, sexual and/or violent behavior.   For the full
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Anderson, Emotions & Aggression  (00:03:49) Sponsors: LMNT
(00:08:10) Emotions vs. States (00:10:36) Dimensions of States:
Persistence, Intensity & Generalization (00:14:38) Arousal
& Valence  (00:18:11) Aggression, Optogenetics &
Stimulating Aggression in Mice, VMH (00:24:42) Aggression Types:
Offensive, Defensive & Predatory  (00:29:20) Evolution
& Development of Defensive vs. Offensive Behaviors, Fear
(00:35:38) Hydraulic Pressures for States & Homeostasis
(00:37:24) Sponsor: AG1 (00:39:46) Hydraulic Pressure &
Aggression (00:44:50) Balancing Fear & Aggression (00:48:31)
Aggression & Hormones: Estrogen, Progesterone &
Testosterone (00:52:33) Female Aggression, Motherhood (00:59:48)
Mating & Aggressive Behaviors  (01:05:10) Neurobiology of
Sexual Fetishes  (01:10:06) Temperature, Mating Behavior &
Aggression (01:15:25) Mounting: Sexual Behavior or Dominance?
(01:20:59) Females & Male-Type Mounting Behavior (01:24:40) PAG
(Periaqueductal Gray) Brain Region: Pain Modulation &
Fear  (01:30:38) Tachykinins & Social Isolation: Anxiety,
Fear & Aggression  (01:43:49) Brain, Body & Emotions;
Somatic Marker Hypothesis & Vagus Nerve  (01:52:52)
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