You can recognize fear in faces even with a messed up amygdala if you have OK...
A report that the amygdala is not necessary in recognition of fearful faces, fearful face recognition being a proxy for the "mirror neuron network."
View ArticleEnd of the world news roundup: psychopath, narcissists, obesity and addiction...
Round up and commentary of dysfunction in the news, world-is-ending edition.
View ArticleWhite matter month 2013: Is psychopathy related to myelin?
Is psychopathy a condition of impaired myelination?
View ArticleWhite matter month: 6 disconnectivity papers, disconnected in subject matter...
"Connectivity" is so complicated and so central that we just took a scattershot approach to looking at some recent papers -- fetal alcohol, bed wetting, appetite, nature/nurture, synesthesia and genes.
View ArticleNeurodiversity editorial: Do we have to accept sociopaths? Revisited.
Should neurodiversity include psychopaths?
View ArticleMore on mass fetal alcohol spectrum in the ruling class
Be sure to take an iron pill before drinking that martini while pregnant.
View ArticleLike a red thread running through
This post is about a finding common biology among a bunch of different conditions. Calcium channel signalling gene variants are a common denominator in five disorders previously categorized in the DSM...
View ArticleThe Italian Job, report: Italian serial killer more normal than DSM V or...
Would you rather be around a serial killer or a high functioning psychopath CEO? Haha,JK, same person.
View ArticleWhat we would do if we had that $100B brain map
We have some suggestions for projects, if that money is burning a hole in your labcoat pocket.
View ArticleFormatting messed up, working on it. *sigh*
Sorry. We love WordPress, but sometimes the updates sneak up on us and explode. Working on it.Read more →
View ArticleAlcoholics acting like aliens: disconnected brain blood flow?
What is it about addiction and personality?Read more →
View Article5 SSRN papers we found interesting this week
Checking in with the Social Science Research Network -- some links here. Read more →
View ArticleDSM Mumbo Jumbo sez NIMH Director
The National Institute of Mental Health director says the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the notorious “DSM”) lacks validity, and diagnostic criteria should be no longer based...
View ArticleCan you detect psychopathy in snot?
"I'm a sociopath" "Are you scamming me?"Read more →
View Article3 reasons we’ve been ignoring this blog
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know. We sort of left this blog hanging for the past better part of a year now. Maybe it's social neuroscience fatigue.Read more →
View ArticleWe wuz spammed, so all comments are deleted
Who would spam-attack a blog about sociopaths? Read more →
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