Psychopathy: The Breakdown Of Psychopathic Brains

There is also a strong possibility that psychopathy is related to genetics, being passed from parent to child. A strong connection between childhood trauma to the frontal lobes or the region that allows human emotion and abuse exists between psychopaths as well. Psychopathic brains have a reduction of gray matter, fewer neurons, and increased white matter in the frontal lobes which causes more connections between the neurons- cells that transmit nerve impulses; it also is consistent with a defect in the taking away of the white matter that allows for brain growth. The reduced gray matter means that damage may be done causing neural atrophy which causes the breakdown of neurons. All of this contributes to the psychopath’s inability to navigate …show more content…
Even if a child shows signs of a psychopath, it doesn’t mean they will become one because they can change their ways while an adult is less likely to; even though, the signs between an adult psychopath and a child with a high risk for it are very similar in a more minor way. The child usually has a history of delinquency and problems with school and behavior. Although, the majority of those kids who are like that won’t turn into full blown psychopaths, but rather have signs of it for the rest of their lives. These children who are likely to become psychopaths won’t feel sadness, guilt, or will they be concerned with others feelings. Often adolescences have traits that are similar to a complete psychopath; in spite of the fear of psychopathy in the younger generation, this is written down to hormones because these symptoms often disappear or lessen in older age. Psychopathic traits are most reliably observed at age four even though two year olds can show the signs. They wouldn’t respond to distress in the same way as most children or feel bad about mean acts or be affected by forms of …show more content…
This also helps to support the fact that there is a genetic basis to psychopaths. Households can affect the psychopath, making the child more likely to be a psychopath or have thus symptoms. Someone can come from stable homes though and still be a complete psychopath which goes along with the genetic theory. “You’re not born a psychopath, but the foundation is there.” Hare says. “We’re all born with temperaments that can be shaped by the environment.” Hare is an expert in the psychological field of psychopaths. There is no way of curing an adult psychopath that is known to scientists, not even medicine, but there is a possibility that a child can be cured of the psychopathic tendencies. As long as the “fixing” for the child begins between four and eight then it is highly likely that a child can be cured of a possible future being a psychopath. Research is being conducted to help with this subject of psychopaths as to prevent future children from becoming them