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Author Haycock, Dean A., author.

Title Murderous minds : exploring the criminal psychopathic brain : neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil / Dean A. Haycock, Ph.D.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Pegasus Books LLC : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
©2014

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 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA616.8582 HAYCOCK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  616.8582 HAYCOCK    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.8582 HAY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.85 H32    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  616.8582 HAY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  616.8582 HAYCOCK    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Description xvii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.
Contents Who would do something like this? -- Kunlangeta, psychopaths, and sociopaths : does the label matter? -- What does brain imaging see? -- A problem just behind the forehead -- Troubling developments and genes -- Back again? : predicting bad behavior -- Missing fear and empathy -- Successful, unsuccessful, and other types of psychopaths -- Could you become a psychopath? -- Could your child be a budding psychopath? -- Why do we have to deal with these people? : explaining criminal psychopaths to juries and Darwinists -- A little "big science."
Summary Presents the findings of a neuroscientist who has spent time imaging, mapping, testing, and dissecting the brains of psychopaths--people who lack a conscience or empathy--and discusses what motivates them and makes them act as they do. --Publsihers description.
Subject Psychology, Pathological.
Psychopaths.
Antisocial personality disorders.
Brain -- Physiology.
Criminal behavior.
Criminal psychology.
Forensic neurology.
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