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Psychopathy

open access: yesNature Reviews Disease Primers, 2021
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of affective, interpersonal, lifestyle and antisocial features whose antecedents can be identified in a subgroup of young people showing severe antisocial behaviour. The prevalence of psychopathy in the general population is thought to be ~1%, but is up to 25% in prisoners.
Stephane A De Brito   +2 more
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Neuroimaging in psychopathy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: The biological basis of psychopathy remains to be fully elucidated. Evidence suggests a genetic contribution and dysfunction of the serotonin system. The objective of this article is to review the contribution of the neuroimaging of the last decade to our understanding of psychopathy.
Pridmore, Saxby   +2 more
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Psychopathy and stalking.

Law and Human Behavior, 2009
We examined the association between psychopathy, assessed using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised: Screening Version (Hart et al., Manual for the psychopathy checklist screening version (PCL:SV), 1995), and stalking in 61 men convicted of stalking-related offenses.
Jennifer E. Storey   +3 more
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The Neurobiology of Psychopathy

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2008
Numerous studies have tackled the complex challenge of understanding the neural substrates of psychopathy, revealing that brain abnormalities exist on several levels and in several structures. As we discover more about complex neural networks, it becomes increasingly difficult to clarify how these systems interact with each other to produce the ...
Andrea L. Glenn, Adrian Raine
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The development of psychopathy

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2006
The current review focuses on the construct of psychopathy, conceptualized as a clinical entity that is fundamentally distinct from a heterogeneous collection of syndromes encompassed by the term ‘conduct disorder’. We will provide an account of the development of psychopathy at multiple levels: ultimate causal (the genetic or social primary cause ...
S. Budhani   +4 more
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Machiavellianism and psychopathy.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998
An integration of the Machiavellianism (MACH) and psychopathy constructs based on a dimensional view of personality and personality disorders and a recognition of B. Karpman's (1941, 1948) conceptual distinction between primary and secondary psychopathy is presented.
Christopher Szyarto   +2 more
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The Development of Psychopathy

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2005
In this review, we explore two aspects of the development of psychopathy. First, we examine what psychopathy looks like across time. Second, we ask where psychopathy comes from. Much recent empirical work supports the idea that psychopathy in childhood and adolescence looks much like psychopathy in adulthood.
Donald R. Lynam, Lauren C. Gudonis
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The Philosophy of Psychopathy

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1996
The concept of mankind's dark side—of the beast within us all—is deeply entrenched in modern thought. Scientists from Darwin to Lorenz have explained the evolutionary and genetic basis ofthe propensity towards violence; writers from Shakespeare to Golding have described conflicts and struggles between passion and reason; and psychoanalysts from Freud ...
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Biochemistry of psychopathy

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1979
Abstract The definition of psychopathy relies at present largely on subjective psychological and psychiatric assessment of personality traits, and as such remains an inadequately defined - and therefore understood - concept. This paper reviews the background work on peripheral biochemistry involvement in emotions, and discusses in this context the ...
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