Psychopathic Violent Offenders’ Brains Can’t Understand Punishment (IMAGE)

University of Montreal

Psychopathic Violent Offenders’ Brains Can’t Understand Punishment

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Psychopathic violent offenders have abnormalities in the parts of the brain related to learning from punishment, according to an MRI study led by Sheilagh Hodgins (University of Montreal, Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal) and Nigel Blackwood (King’s College London).

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Sebastian Anthony

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