Murderous minds
Subtitle: exploring the criminal psychopathic brain : neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil
By: Dean A. Haycock, Ph.D.
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books; Pegasus
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781605984988
Subjects: Forensic neurology; Brain; Psychopaths; Criminal psychology; Antisocial personality disorders; Physiology; Criminal behavior; Pathological Psychology
Description: 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.  --Publsihers description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who would do something like this?; title: Kunlangeta, psychopaths, and sociopaths : does the label matter?; title: What does brain imaging see?; title: A problem just behind the forehead; title: Troubling developments and genes; title: Back again? Predicting bad behavior; title: Missing fear and empathy; title: Successful, unsuccessful, and other types of psychopaths; title: Could you become a psychopath?; title: Could your child be a budding psychopath?; title: Why do we have to deal with these people? Explaining criminal psychopaths to juries and Darwinists; title: Epilogue. A little "big science."