psychopathy

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The study was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research under the title "Larger striatal volume is associated with increased adult psychopathy."

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

It is a ease of contagious, mystic psychopathy!

From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe