Sentences with phrase «at dominance aggression»

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A team of researchers led by Dr. Elliott Albers, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents» Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State University, and graduate student Joseph I. Terranova, has discovered that serotonin (5 - HT) and arginine - vasopressin (AVP) act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance.

My boy is 3 he is a rescue from a back street breeder at 9 weeks old so he has grown up with me but he is constantly growling snarling an snapping at me when I try to pet him or if I want him to move or if I tell him off he also snaps at strangers and other dogs (he was attacked badly last year by a dog so now is very defensive around them) but I can't understand his aggression towards other people who he has never meet before and me and my family including my 13 year old brother I have tried Clicker training correction spray and god old fashioned shouting an a smack on the nose which resulted in me being bitten so i am at a total lose as to what to do next is it a confidence thing or a dominance thing

This indicates that dominance aggression may, at least in some individuals, result from a brain abnormality on the chemical level.