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Inside the Mind of a Psychopath Jason Cannon, Robyn Dean, Danika Gagné, Kyle Hansen, Allison MacDonald, Elisa MacKinnon, Kelcey Mouzar

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Inside the Mind of a Psychopath

Jason Cannon, Robyn Dean, Danika Gagné, Kyle Hansen, Allison MacDonald,

Elisa MacKinnon, Kelcey Mouzar

Assessing & Classifying Psychopathy

PCL-R

20 criteria

Scoring

DSM-IV

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Treatment & Benefits

“Beyond help” - Untreatable

Michael Caldwell’s “decompression”

Benefits extend beyond social peace

$60,000

$200-$400 billion per year (USA)

Biological Basis of Psychopathy

Phineas Gage

Paralimbic system

Affected areas

Biological Basis of Psychopathy

Biological Basis Continued

Genetic variability

Genetics and environment

EEG prison experiment

Electroencephalography