The brain of a psycopath

The Psychopathic Brain: Is It Different from a Normal Brain?

The psychopathic brain has been an interest of study for decades due to the fact that psychopaths represent such a small segment of society and yet commit a highly disproportionate amount of criminal acts (like these famous psychopaths and psychopath killers). And with more-and-more psychopaths having magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or functional MRI (fMRI) scans, some correlates have been found. In short, the brain of a psychopath is different than a normal brain.

There are three main parts of the brain which psychopath brain scans show significant differences in. They are in the regions of the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and the extended paralimbic structures. Light is shed on these regions in the paper, The Psychopath Magnetized: Insights from Brain Imaging, by Anderson and Kiehl. The effects on these regions of the brain may be what produces psychopathic symptoms and what is termed the psychopathic personalit