Psychopath

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The defining book of mental disorders is called the DSM-5 where psychopathic features are characterized by "a lack of anxiety or fear and by a bold interpersonal style that may mask maladaptive behaviors (e.g., fraudulence)." These features can be quantified by various psychometric tests including:

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R)
  • Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM)
  • Elemental Psychopathy Assessment (EPA)

Cause

In neuroscience it is thought that psychopathy is related to a dysfunction in the amygdala[1][2][3]. This is a part of the brain which regulates emotions[4].

  1. Weber, S., Habel, U., Amunts, K., & Schneider, F. (2008). Structural brain abnormalities in psychopaths a review. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 26(1), 7–28.
  2. Anderson, N. E., & Kiehl, K. A. (2012). The psychopath magnetized: Insights from brain imaging. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 52–60.
  3. Blair, R. (2008). The amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Functional contributions and dysfunction in psychopathy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1503), 2557–2565.
  4. Fallon, J. (2013). The psychopath inside: A neuroscientist’s personal journey into the dark side of the brain. New York: Penguin.

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