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Feline Defensive Temper Similar to Humans
January 29, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Research News
With each such advance in the understanding of the mammalian brain's recipe for rage, scientists seem to be moving closer to developing medications to quell violent behaviour in humans and other mammals.
In cats, such therapies may prevent the hissing, back arching, ear retraction, claw extensions and fur standing-on-end that are typical indicators of feline defensive rage.
In humans, related anger reveals itself with road rage, an impulsive form of anger that involves little or no thought.
"In road rage, the person never thinks about what he is doing but just acts in the way he does because he feels that he has been threatened by someone else and the impulsive behaviour represents a way by which he can protect himself from such a threat," Discovery News quoted co-author Allan Siegel, a professor in the Department of Neurology & Neurosciences at New Jersey Medical School in Newark, as saying.
"In reality, his actions are usually much more dangerous to him than to the person whom he perceived cut him off on the road," added Siegel.
Previous studies had shown that anger is centred in the medial hypothalamus region of the brain.
In the latest study, the researchers electrically stimulated this brain region in 10 female cats, creating feline defensive rage among them. When a protein called an interleukin was introduced into the anger region of the cats brains, it fuelled the felines rage.
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