Background: Psychopathic offenders inevitably violate interpersonal norms and frequently
resort to aggressive and criminal behaviour. The affective and cognitive deficits underlying …

Aggression and psychopathy are multifaceted conditions determined interpersonal and
antisocial factors. Only a few studies analyze the link between these separate factors and …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous lack of empathy, impulsive
antisocial behavior, and criminal recidivism. Studies of brain structure and function in …

Background: Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with impairments in decision‐
making, empathy, and impulsivity. Recent brain imaging studies suggest that psychopathy is …

Often typified as cunning social predators, psychopathic offenders show a persistent pattern
of impulsive and reckless behavior, the pathophysiology of which has been related to …

Background Psychopathy is characterized by a distinctive interpersonal style that combines
callous-unemotional traits with inflexible and antisocial behavior. Traditional emotion-based …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous antisocial behavior and
criminal recidivism. Here we examine whether psychopathy is associated with alterations in …

BACKGROUND: Although studies of neurologic patients have suggested that prefrontal
structural impairments may predispose to sociopathy, it is unknown whether there is a …

Psychotic disorders are associated with neurobehavioral impairments in mental state
attribution (mentalizing). These impairments are most severe in psychotic patients with …

Researchers studying forensic psychopathology have been searching for biological
explanations for the socially costly and puzzling disorder, psychopathy. This dissertation …