An underlying cause for psychopathic behaviour?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 08:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Psychopaths are known to be characterised by callousness, diminished capacity for remorse, and lack of empathy. However, the exact cause of these personality traits is an area of scientific debate. The results of a new study, reported in the May 2010 issue of Elsevier's Cortex (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cortex), show striking similarities between the mental impairments observed in psychopaths and those seen in patients with frontal lobe damage...