Summary: Behaviors That Constitute Psychopathy

Behaviors that constitute Psychopathy

11/1/13

Behaviors that Constitute Psychopathy

There are many things that can constitute psychopathy. We know from the study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison that brain scans revealed that psychopathy in criminals were related with diminished connectivity between the amygdala, a subcortical structure of the brain that processes negative stimuli, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a cortical region in the front of the brain that interprets the response from the amygdala (University of Wisconsin, Madison). This means that most people feel horrible when they do something wrong, however in someone who has this problem there is not enough negative stimuli to