psychopathy

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However, psychopathy likely reflects a broader pattern of brain differences involving motivation, emotional processing, impulse control, and social behavior.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

“You get people who are verging on psychopathy and you get people who are just troubled.”

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025

Dementia usually means memory problems, but frontotemporal dementia with a loss of ability to empathize with other people can resemble other conditions with empathy problems in psychiatry, such as psychopathy.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Although sociopathy may not be as stigmatized as psychopathy, people are still trained to fear sociopaths as potential life-wreckers utterly without empathy.

From Salon • May 20, 2024

Whether he saw anything or not belongs among the obscurer questions of psychopathy.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John