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Study Examines Brain Response To Empathy-Eliciting Scenarios Among Incarcerated Individuals With Psychopathy
April 26, 2013 by NewsBot
JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights In a study, Jean Decety, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues examined the potential differences in patterns of neural activity among incarcerated individuals with psychopathy and incarcerated persons serving as controls during the perception of empathy-eliciting stimuli depicting other people experiencing pain...