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

by Haycock, Dean A., author.

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New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.

Antisocial personality disorders.

Brain -- Physiology.

Criminal behavior.

Criminal psychology.

Forensic neurology.

9781605984988 :

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

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

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 -- A little "big science."

"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.

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