Abstract

VALENCIA, Olga Lucía. Brain asymmetries in psychopathy. Diversitas [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.2, pp.275-286. ISSN 1794-9998.

At the moment, there is an interest to investigate the principals aspects about "the psychopath mind" and the brain asymmetry. The principal goal in this article is to check the linguistic and emotional development involved in psychopathy population. First, there is a definition of affective styles, brain asymmetries and emotional, and then is described the discoveries respect to the asymmetries in emotional and linguistic processing in psychopaths. Finally, the relation between the cerebral structures and the mental disorder is approached.

Keywords : Psychopathy; asymmetries; lateralization.

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