Psychopathy
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by:
- Arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style: impression management or superficial charm, inflated and grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying/deceit, and manipulation for personal gain.
- Deficient affective experience: lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect (coldness and unemotionality), callousness and lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility for own actions.
- Impulsive and irresponsible lifestyle: impulsivity, sensation-seeking and risk-taking, irresponsible and unreliable behavior, financially parasitic lifestyle and lack of realistic, long-term goals.
Neurologically, it has been linked primarily impairments in the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex and right orbitofrontal cortex, as well as reduced connections between the amygdala and the right orbitofrontal cortex. Note that the strength of the connections between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex determines a person’s level of emotional reactivity.
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