Murderous Minds

A third category on the PCL–R concerns the psychopathic lifestyle: Parasitic Lifestyle, Lack of Realistic Long-Term Goals, Impulsivity, and Irresponsibility. Many criminal psychopaths have trouble sticking with long-term projects or commitments, including jobs and relationships

dyssocial personality disorder

The researchers found that communication between the prefrontal cortex and the substantia nigra was weaker in the group of people with schizophrenia

the substantia nigra

psychotic with psychopathic

brain’s cerebral cortex, sluggish amygdala, silent frontal lobes, or inheritance of genes

most of them: brutal, cruel, hard, harsh, oppressive, rough, searing, and, most intriguingly, inhuman.

“having the ability or power to overwhelm: devastating.”

who kills without remorse

he sadistic psychopathic serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, the unfeeling psychopaths like Richard Kuklinsky who kill for personal gain, the school shooter Eric Harris, the rapist and murderer Brian Dugan,