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| Prisoners And Brain Damaged Studied |
| By madison.com |
| Published: 06/07/2010 |
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The way psychopathic prisoners play games resembles patterns shown by people whose brains have been damaged by such medical conditions as strokes and tumors, according to an intriguing set of experiments conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. The research, published in this month’s issue of Neuropsychologia, is the latest contribution to a growing trove of evidence challenging long-standing notions about the nature and roots of psychopathic behavior. Mention the word “psycho,” and most of us think of mass murderer Ted Bundy or the seemingly wimpy hotel clerk in the Hitchcock thriller — people who hide under a veneer of ordinariness and even charm but who, in reality, are cold-blooded predators who commit horrific crimes because they lack normal human emotions like remorse or guilt. Not all psychopaths are violent, of course. Wall Street con artist Bernie Madoff has been termed a psychopath for manipulating and financially destroying the people around him without moral compunction. Read More. |
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