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 ...

The study's researchers investigated the brain activity of psychopathic ... criminals for the study. The psychopaths were put in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner and shown movies ...

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 ...

About 23 percent of people in prison are psychopaths, compared with about 1 percent of people in the general population. In this study, researchers used functional MRI to observe brain activity in ...

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 ...

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 ...

today’s brain-imaging technologies can’t visualize brain activity so sensitively. A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called DIANA – direct imaging of neuronal activity – may get us ...

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 ...