Neuroscientist James Fallon, and author of The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain, discusses his scientific and personal exploration into the ...

the psychopathic brain pictured in the scan was his own. Many of us would hide this discovery and never tell a soul, out of fear or embarrassment of being labeled a psychopath. Perhaps because ...

But you can't tell a psychopath just from looking at one. Many psychopaths show a distinctive pattern of brain activity, according to James Fallon, a UC Irvine School of Medicine neuroscientist ...

Kiehl doesn’t know whether the brain scan and the accompanying PCL-R psychopath label impacted the jury’s ultimate death penalty conviction. (A year later, the death penalty was abolished in Illinois.

and yet figuring out exactly what goes on in a psychopath’s brain is extraordinarily difficult. We’ve now got an answer…and all it took was scanning the brains of forty medium-security ...

This is what Kiehl calls the "emotional circuit," involving the orbital cortex above the eyes and the amygdala deep in the brain. But Kiehl says when psychopaths like Dugan see the KKK picture ...

Samuel West and Nathan DeWall and their research teams conducted two MRI studies of “successful” psychopathic individuals. They found that participants had greater grey matter density in the ...

These psychopaths are manipulative, calculating and can be very successful in fields like business or politics. (Have you seen House of Cards?) These two extremes can be related, in part, to ...

A participant about to be scanned. To test if psychopathic individuals lack this empathic brain activation, the clinic transported 21 convicted violent psychopathic offenders to our scanner.

I had learned as a very young child that people were often repulsed by me—by my chronic need to know which they labeled ... my brain worked. Her lack of judgment about sociopathy or psychopathy ...

But the label is ill-defined ... who accidentally discovered he was a psychopath while examining images of brain scans. “I go to the bottom of the stack, and saw this scan that was obviously ...