Murderous minds : exploring the criminal psychopathic brain : neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil / Dean A. Haycock, Ph. D.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books LLC, 2014Edition: First Pegasus books cloth editionDescription: xvii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781605984988
  • 1605984981
Other title:
  • Exploring the criminal psychopathic brain
  • Neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.85/82 23
LOC classification:
  • RC555 .H39 2014
NLM classification:
  • WM 190
Contents:
Foreword / by Charles C. Ouimet -- Introduction -- Who would do something like this? -- Kunlangeta, psychopaths, and sociopaths : does the label matter? -- What does brain imaging see? -- A problem just behind the forehead -- Troubling developments and genes -- Back again? : predicting bad behavior -- Missing fear and empathy -- Successful, unsuccessful, and other types of psychopaths -- Could you become a psychopath? -- Could your child be a budding psychopath? -- Why do we have to deal with these people? : explaining criminal psychopaths to juries and Darwinists -- Epilogue : a little "big science."
Summary: "Presents the findings of a neuroscientist who has spent time imaging, mapping, testing, and dissecting the brains of psychopaths--people who lack a conscience or empathy--and discusses what motivates them and makes them act as they do."--Publisher's description.
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"Presents the findings of a neuroscientist who has spent time imaging, mapping, testing, and dissecting the brains of psychopaths--people who lack a conscience or empathy--and discusses what motivates them and makes them act as they do."--Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.

Foreword / by Charles C. Ouimet -- Introduction -- Who would do something like this? -- Kunlangeta, psychopaths, and sociopaths : does the label matter? -- What does brain imaging see? -- A problem just behind the forehead -- Troubling developments and genes -- Back again? : predicting bad behavior -- Missing fear and empathy -- Successful, unsuccessful, and other types of psychopaths -- Could you become a psychopath? -- Could your child be a budding psychopath? -- Why do we have to deal with these people? : explaining criminal psychopaths to juries and Darwinists -- Epilogue : a little "big science."

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