When it comes to committing violent crime, psychopaths may not be bad to the bone, but a new brain study suggests they may lack key neural structures—literally less gray matter—involved in empathy, moral reasoning, and feelings of guilt. And that gives grounds for optimism about the potential to rehabilitate nonpsychopathic offenders, according to a British neuroscientist who studies the brains of the violent. Those neural deficiencies seem to set psychopaths' brains apart from the brains of other violent offenders without psychopathic traits, says Dr. Nigel Blackwood. The King’s ... Read More