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The psychopath : emotion and the brain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blair, James, MD
Other Authors: Mitchell, Derek Robert, Blair, Karina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Subjects:
Antisocial personality disorders.
Psychopaths.
Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Aggression > psychology.
Antisocial Personality Disorder > classification.
Emotions.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • What is psychopathy?
  • The background facts
  • What is the ultimate cause of psychopathy?
  • The psychopathic individual : the functional impairment
  • Cognitive accounts of psychopathy
  • Neural accounts of psychopathy
  • A neurocognitive account of reactive aggression
  • A neurocognitive account of psychopathy
  • Conundrums and conclusions.