Murderous minds : exploring the criminal psychopathic brain : neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil / Dean A. Haycock, Ph. D.

  • Haycock, Dean A.
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Exploring the criminal psychopathic brain
Neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil

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."--Publisher's description.

Publication/Creation

New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.

Physical description

xvii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Contents

Foreword / Charles C. Ouimet -- 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 -- Epilogue : A little "big science."

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PWM /HAY
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781605984988
  • 1605984981