Differences Between The Brain And A Psychopath's Brain

For a “normal” person if they hurt someone that person’s distress becomes their pain, however this doesn’t happen with psychopaths. “It stuns me, as much as it did when I started 40 years ago, that it is possible to have people who are so emotionally disconnected that they can function as if other people are objects to be manipulated and destroyed without any concern,” says Professor Robert Hare who is a criminal psychologist. When people think of a psychopath they often think of brutal killers and or outcasts of society however, not all psychopaths are murders or anything close to one. So now you may ask what separates these killers from any other, the answer is this, “Unlike most murderers, who act in the heat of a passion, and later feel
Another major difference between the two brains is in a loop that a start in the front of the brain, the loop includes; the parahippocampalgyrus, the amygdala and several other parts of the brain that are tied to emotion and impulse control. Under certain circumstances these parts of the brain would light up drastically on a “normal” person’s MRI scan, but would not light up at all on a psychopath’s MRI scan. Researchers, at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, say “the differences in psychopaths' brains mark them out even from other violent criminals with anti-social personality disorders (ASPD) and from healthy non-offenders”. The best example for the way a psychopaths mind works or feels empathy is to think about an autistic person. An autistic person can be very empathetic, they feel other people’s pain, but cannot recognize the cues a normal person can read easily, such as, the smiles and frowns that tell us what someone is thinking. Psychopaths are the complete opposite of an autistic person. Psychopaths know what you’re feeling, but cannot feel it for
Some of the most famous psychopaths are: Ted Bundy, Issei Sagawa, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy Jr.. Ted Bundy is known for murdering young woman by beating them or by strangulation. After brutally killing the victims he also confessed to raping many of them. Ted Bundy’s last words were “I’d like you to give my love to my family and my friends”. Issei Sagawa was practically a celebrity after killing and eating a Dutch exchange student named Renee Hartevelt. Issei had invited her to his apartment, where he ended up shot her in the neck, had sex with her corpse and then spent two days carving up and eating her body. He later said that he had hoped, by eating the beautiful Hartevelt, that he would absorb some of her healthy energy. Jeffery Dahmer murderd20 men and had several corpses stored in acid-filled vats, severed heads were found in his refrigerator, also there were human skulls found in his closet. Dahmer’s last words were “I wish I hadn’t done it”. The last famous psychopath that I am going to talk about is John Wayne Gacy Jr; Gacy is notorious as the “Killer Clown” because many of the block parties that he attended he showed up in a clown suit to entertain children. His lasts words were “Kiss my