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Italian Researchers Discover Caudate, Putamen, Nucleus Accumbens Different in Psychopaths

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

One of the most powerful facts that I may have ever learned is that psychopaths differ biologically from other people. I remember the epiphany I experienced as soon as I internalized this fact, quickly realizing the profound implications it had for everything from psychotherapy to activism to day-to-day life.

When I wrote my detailed page about psychopathy, I made sure to include information about some of these biological differences. Many of them have to do with the ways in which psychopaths’ brain structure and function diverge from that of others.

Recently, a new study was published adding to this important and growing mass of findings. (more…)