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Title:
Murderous minds : exploring the criminal psychopathic brain : neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books LLC : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

©2014
Physical Description:
xvii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781605984988
Abstract:
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.
Contents:
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.
Language:
English
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