Abnormal neuroscience: Scanning psychopaths

of Abnormal Psychology Brain potentials implicate temporal lobe abnormalities in criminal psychopaths

Psychopathy is associated with abnormalities in attention and orienting processes. However, few studies have examined the neural systems underlying these processes in psychopaths. To address this issue, behavioral responses and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while 80 incarcerated males, classified as psychopathic or nonpsychopathic using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, co...

Responsible psychopaths

Psychopaths are agents who lack the normal capacity to feel moral emotions (e.g. guilt based on empathy with the victims of their actions). Evidence for attributing psychopathy at least in some cases to genetic or early childhood causes suggests that psychopaths lack free will. However, the paper defends a sense in which psychopaths still may be construed as responsible for their actions, even ...

Psychopaths and Moral Knowledge

Evolutionary Explanation of Psychopaths

Psychopaths are brutal individuals, having no empathetic concern for others. Initially, the existence of psychopaths seems to be a mystery from an evolutionary point of view. On close examination, however, it can be accommodated by evolutionary theory. Brutal individuals excelled meek individuals in the desperate circumstances where they had to fight their competitors over natural resources for...

The Neuroscience of Tinnitus: Understanding Abnormal and Normal Auditory Perception

1 Department of Physiology and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada 2 Department of Pharmacology and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada 3 Department of Psychology and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada 4 Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, Ha...