Pioneering Machine Learning Technique on the Hypothalamus Gives Insight Into Nature of Aggression - Neuroscience News

Summary: Using machine learning technology, researchers provide new insight into the neural mechanisms that govern anger and aggression. Have you ever been cut off while driving and found yourself swearing and laying on the horn? Or come home from a long day at work and lashed out at whoever left the dishes unwashed? From petty anger to the devastating violence we see in the news, acts of aggression can be difficult to comprehend. Research has yielded puzzling paradoxes about how rage works in the brain.