Criminals & thiers brains

New research is showing that the minds of criminals are actually different than those who are not.  There are differences in the brain itself.  A few different parts of the brain actually have up to 19% less volume than others with a “normal” brain.  They also might have deformations in their amygdala and/or a thinning cortex.  Since the amygdala is the place in the brain where emotion is processed once it gets damaged it affects the types of emotion you feel if any.  Psychopaths lack emotion which would be explained by the deformed amygdala.  In addition to having different brains they also show different behavioral patterns, these are the types of things that criminal psychologists would look at is how they and why they do what they do.  Looking into the different parts of the brain and their behavior would help them do that.  The rest of the article does a really good job of looking into the differences of different disorders and how they look in the brain.  So if you’re interested here’s the link (: http://www.livescience.com/13083-criminals-brain-neuroscience-ethics.html