Sentences with phrase «psychopathic behaviour»

As with any other form of behaviour, psychopathic behaviour has a neurobiological basis.

The differences in fear sensitivity are likely to be innate, at least in part: dysfunction in the amygdala, a brain area important for processing fear, has previously been linked to psychopathic behaviour, and genetic factors must underlie some of these differences.

Can brain scans reveal the root of psychopathic behaviour?

Any of our mental health practices which may have misdiagnosed and mistreated grief as depression, spiritual experience as psychosis or schizophrenia, and political resistance as intransigent or psychopathic behaviours, mistaking the asserting of cultural identity, and defiance for the disturbing behaviours of difficult patients.

Not exact matches

Many criminal offenders display psychopathic traits, such as antisocial and impulsive behaviour.

Psychopathic traits, previously considered as a meaningful (negative) specifier for severe antisocial and aggressive behaviours in adult psychopathology, have been re-discovered as a relevant factor in subtyping CD in youth [6].

For example, psychopathic traits — problematic personality traits including a lack of empathy and antisocial behaviour [15]-- have been associated with an atypical pattern of social reward [13].

The real estate industry and those at the top perhaps are psychopathic (sociopathic) or have learned to exhibit the same tendencies: behaviour glib, superficial, charming, devoid of conscience or guilt.