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Psychopaths' Brains Show Differences in Structure and Function
Science Daily ^ | 11/22/2011 | Unk

Posted on 11/24/2011 6:37:07 PM PST by Silentgypsy

Images of prisoners' brains show important differences between those who are diagnosed as psychopaths and those who aren't, according to a new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. This study found reduced connectivity between an area of prefrontal cortex (PFC, red) and the amygdala (blue).

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; pathology; psych; psychopath
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To: hinckley buzzard

So, is there an early treatment? Or just recognition of the potential condition?


41 posted on 11/24/2011 10:09:23 PM PST by umgud
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To: hinckley buzzard

Interesting that you say that....I just read “Without Conscience” and it stated that ALL psychopaths had traumatic early childhoods-—had insecure and worse “attachment”.

Now, what WAS unusual was that not ALL children who have traumatic childhoods will become psychopaths.

It is learned behavior unless there is brain damage or other neurological abnormality in childhood.

TV can also be a model for behavior and some early childhoods are filled with very disturbing images that will form that child’s worldview of people and society.


42 posted on 11/24/2011 10:10:30 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: reformedliberal
Do you know families unfortunate enough to have one of these psychopaths? We do.

Ditto. I agree with you.
43 posted on 11/24/2011 10:17:13 PM PST by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Obama refuses to release his test results.

Thanks Silentgypsy.


44 posted on 11/24/2011 10:34:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Silentgypsy

fl


45 posted on 11/24/2011 10:50:24 PM PST by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: SunkenCiv

What kind of test did he take?


46 posted on 11/24/2011 11:54:13 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: rockinqsranch

I am fairly certain that Clinton, much like Obama, could easily be diagnosed with clinical narcissism at a minimum, clinical psychopathy at maximum, and a few other mental disorders as well.


47 posted on 11/25/2011 2:01:41 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

And what of the Kenyan pissant in the White House?


48 posted on 11/25/2011 2:03:05 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Silentgypsy

Them boys ain’t wired right...


49 posted on 11/25/2011 4:30:39 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: SIDENET

The one I was referring to is articulate, charming and intelligent. Able to *pass* as a caring human being and was a successful liar practicing the long con. Got away with child molestation and just general sloth and only a pretense of achievement until he was 44. Talked his way out of things or was given the benefit of the doubt or found a legal loophole. Even now, in prison with two consecutive 10-year terms, one Federal and one State, his father, who had already paid over $25k for his son’s defense and fines, is paying for a second appeal on the Federal sentence. It involves police behavior and warrants under the 5th amendment and effects us all, but it will likely get this guy out of a 10 year sentence.

So, IF this person is a provable psychopath (and I think the MRI evidence would need to be 100% all the time to be used effectively), are you willing to defend his right to life after he gets out, finishes his mandatory supervision and then manages to find another vulnerable little girl? By then, of course, he will actually likely be defended as someone with a *minority attraction disorder* and receive some more psychological counseling.

Who is responsible for the damage to the little girls? What is their right to life?


50 posted on 11/25/2011 5:48:06 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Silentgypsy

Education is key. Keep in mind that those who dominate the communication/story telling industries - government, religion, mass media, and education - are Leftists. The only place that conservatives are really getting their voices heard is on the Internet and through home schooling. Conservatives need to make it a goal to dominate those institutions once again.


51 posted on 11/25/2011 7:50:03 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ransomnote

Interesting. I wonder if she really didn’t want the job....


52 posted on 11/25/2011 8:49:50 AM PST by Silentgypsy (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: Chickensoup

“Some people just need killin’.” Did you ever hear that this is a viable legal defense in TX?


53 posted on 11/25/2011 8:52:37 AM PST by Silentgypsy (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: rhombus
Bad wiring. Could be nature, could be nurture, could be both.

In my experience, nature plays the stronger part. Nurture can either ameliorate, or exacerbate, what nature gave you.

54 posted on 11/25/2011 10:02:20 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: ransomnote
That is a most important and interesting tidbit.

Apparently psychopathology can manifest in different ways, not all destructive. Or perhaps some people have the genes but they are dormant for some reason.

It is always wrong to abort anyone (-life of the mother), and certainly aborting someone because he "might" be a problem person is not only wrong, but also illegal (innocent until proven guilty).
55 posted on 11/25/2011 12:36:27 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: ransomnote

I thought the comment was side-splittingly humorous, but I guess not.


56 posted on 11/25/2011 5:34:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought the comment was side-splittingly humorous, but I guess not.

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Oh it was...but Obama does, IMHO, exhibit such marked abnormal psychology (always has) that I am shocked my country elected him to any sort of public office at all, let alone POTUS, and so I see comments like yours through a different lens.


57 posted on 11/25/2011 6:58:23 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: Silentgypsy
Unh uh. They will preserve those types for the governance of the rest of us.

the chuckle of gallows humor...

58 posted on 11/25/2011 7:53:01 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (guitars and women.)
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To: reformedliberal
wheeee! you're on the slippery sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope
59 posted on 11/25/2011 7:54:00 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (guitars and women.)
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To: Silentgypsy

Sounds a bit like just one more reincarnation of phrenology.


60 posted on 11/25/2011 7:56:08 PM PST by Oceander (TINSTAAFL - Mother Nature Abhors a Free Lunch almost as much as She Abhors a Vacuum)
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