Mental
health issues are posing many problems in the lives of many people
all over the world. Aggressive or angry behavior is one of the mentalhealth issues that troubles a number of people and it would certainly
help to know more about its preventative measures.
A
new research has found something within angry mice that is also found
in humans and the means to shut it off. When a mouse acts hostile, it
has been found that this happens because a receptor within its body
has malfunctioned. This discovery is very important from the point of
view of treatment of extremely antagonistic behavior even if there
might be no possible cure for the same. A specific gene disposition
meant for low levels of an enzyme (monoamine oxidase A, or MAO A) was
identified in these violent mice by Marco Bortolato of University of
Southern California and Jean Shih from the School of Pharmacy. The
lower the levels of MAO A, the more are the chances that these mice
will exhibit violent behavior. To continue with their studies, they
found that the mice that were deficient of this enzyme reacted with
aggression whenever they were stressed. Bortolato found that though
the same type of mutation that is studied in mice is associated with
criminal and extremely vicious behavior in humans, the reason for
this type of conduct has not yet been comprehended.
It
was observed that extremely high levels of electric shocks were
necessary to activate a particular brain receptor in the pre-frontal
cortex known as NMDA in both types of mice: those mice that were
exceedingly vicious and hot-tempered and even those that lacked in
the enzyme MAO A. Once activated, the NMDA, though it managed to
work, remained active for only a brief period of time.
Based
on the above examination, researchers have come to the conclusion
that aggression in mice is moderated after blocking the
above-mentioned receptor. Hence this discovery is very useful for
applying the same type of remedy in the form of treatment to human
beings too. Thus this detection holds a lot of promise in the field
of preventative therapy.
Such
type of extremely aggressive behavior is also exhibited by people
suffering from common physiological disorders like Alzheimer’s
disease and autism. Such observations are tremendously significant
from the point of view of using certain preventative measures in
place of aggression. This has paved way for the anticipation that
aggression or angry behavior can be hopefully kept in check. For
this, the potential side effects of drugs that lessen the action of
the aggression receptor under consideration have to be carefully
studied.
Thus
a breakthrough in this field in the form of preventative therapy for
the treatment of mental health in the future will bring a welcome
relief for everyone.
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