A straightforward lack of empathy isn't enough to make someone a full-blown psychopath though. Several MRI studies have ... when imagined to themselves. Brain activity across several regions ...

Fallon’s family has nothing in common with psychopaths or murderers, in terms of their behavior or brain activity ... frontal lobes compared to apes. MRI scans show that prefrontal white ...

Images of prisoners' brains show important differences between those who are diagnosed as psychopaths and those ... a second type of image that maps brain activity, a functional magnetic resonance ...

But thanks to technology that captures brain activity in real time, experts are no longer limited to examining psychopaths’ aberrant ... scanner—a functional MRI machine housed in a trailer ...

The attorney already had the results from an MRI, taken after he ... no significant difference in cortex activity, including the paralimbic area, between psychopaths and normal individuals.

True psychopaths will ... or murderer. MRI scans could also help to determine whether treatment is really working, by looking at whether the brain activity in areas that regulate emotions ...

“For years, we have been focused on the idea that psychopaths are people ... Using a mobile MRI scanner, the study looked at brain scans of 49 inmates at two medium-security prisons in Wisconsin ...

Resting-state functional MRI has emerged as a method to capture functional brain activity without requiring task performance, but its use to chart normative functional development has not been ...

To see if they could identify any signal of brain activity with this approach, the researchers popped anesthetized mice into the MRI scanner, then lightly zapped the animals’ whisker pads with an ...