Psychopaths have different brain structures to the rest of the population, a study has revealed, helping shed new light on ...

A major study has found that psychopaths have markedly different brain structures to the rest of the population, offering ...

Psychopaths are known for their selfishness, callousness, and violence. These antisocial personality traits are often baffling to the rest of us, but could brain differences help to explain them ...

Psychopaths have markedly different brain structures to the rest of the population, a major study has found—offering fresh ...

Kent Kiehl has studied hundreds of psychopaths. Kiehl is one of the world's leading investigators of psychopathy and a professor at the University of New Mexico. He says he can often see it in ...

Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Sociopaths and psychopaths lack empathy for others, but they differ in ...

A new study suggests that perhaps, at the heart of the pathology of psychopaths, is a brain that's poor at generating simulations, whether of other people's feelings or of the future.

Brain imbalance 'causes' psychopaths. Psychopathic behaviour seems to be linked to an imbalance in brain chemicals, according to a new study. Swedish researchers discovered that men with ...

“I knew the human brain very well but I wasn’t an expert on murderers or psychopaths or anything like that. . . . It was just a side thing,” he recalled. Then in 2005, he received a large ...

The same reward system in the brain that hooks people to drugs might also explain why some people act like psychopaths. We know that cold-blooded criminals lack empathy and fear — and are, by ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Can you make a sociopath—either through brain injury or other types of trauma? ” in SA Mind Vol. 23 No. 4 (September 2012), p. 74 doi ...