Brian Dugan raped and murdered three people, two of them children. When he came up for sentencing in 2009, neuroscience had reached the point where brain factors could make a difference between a life ...

Psychopathy is an antisocial personality disorder that has been linked to dysfunction of the orbitofrontal cortex of the brain. It is highly correlated with criminal behavior and violence. In ...

A study involving incarcerated men found that those with pronounced psychopathic traits tend to subconsciously divert their attention away from sad faces when they are experimentally induced to feel ...