What drives psychopaths to commit violent crimes or immoral actions could have a lot to do with how their brains are wired to make decisions, a new study finds. Buckholtz and his co-authors drove an MRI scanner to Wisconsin to study the incarcerated population in two medium-security prisons there. Those two results together, Buckholtz said, suggest that psychopaths have “something of a broken regulatory circuit.”How to treat psychopathsBetter understanding of how psychopaths’ brains work could pave the way for better treatments. For example, the ventral striatum is also overactive when people with substance use disorder are exposed to drug stimuli. “Their bad decisions, the bad choices that they make, are entirely predictable given how their brain is wired,” Buckholtz said.

Source: Huffington Post July 05, 2017 21:56 UTC