World Tonight: Bad behaviour

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), Oct 1, 2008

> ANTI-social behaviour may be a form of mental illness, research suggested today. Scientists at Cambridge University believe the hormone cortisol could be linked to adolescents becoming unruly. They said cortisol usually increases when people undergo the anxiety of stress. The research showed disruptive male youths did not produce the same increase in cortisol when placed in a stressful situation.

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