DANGEROUS, manipulative and, above all, untreatable. The traditional picture of the psychopath is one that everyone, from psychiatrists to members of a jury, seems to share. But although this picture ...

Psychopaths share similarities in brain structure that differ to the rest of the population, a new study reveals, a discovery which could be crucial in developing our understanding of this personality ...

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Scientists have uncovered a striking brain difference linked to psychopathy: people with psychopathic traits were found to have a striatum — a brain region tied to reward, motivation, and ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs have identified a distinct biological difference in the brains of psychopaths, marking a potential turning point in psychiatry. Advanced brain scans have revealed an ...

People who engage in psychopathic behaviors have often left their victims wondering what made them this way. The typical traits of psychopaths, such as high levels of narcissism, manipulative charm, ...

People with high levels of psychopathic tendencies are often incapable of feeling empathy for other people. From a brain science perspective, empathy isn't a single emotion but a multi-part neural ...

James Fallon is an expert on the minds of psychopaths. A neuroscientist at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, Fallon (not to be confused with Jimmy Fallon, the popular TV host) first began studying the ...

To be sure, most psychopaths neither have Hannibal Lecter’s brilliant mind nor his rather peculiar culinary taste. They usually do not eat the liver of their victims. And yet, Lecter’s character does ...

It’s estimated that some 1% of the global population display some signs of psychopathy — a mental state that is often associated with an anti-social behaviour disorder. Synonymous with names such as ...

This past Christmas I took a week off work to visit family. How did I spend much of that time? Reading a memoir by a diagnosed psychopath. Her story was alien, unsettling, and exciting. I couldn’t put ...

Brian Dugan raped and murdered three people, two of them children. When he came up for sentencing in 2009, neuroscience had reached the point where brain factors could make a difference between a life ...