Neurobiological basis of psychopathy

To understand a psychiatric disorder we To understand a psychiatric disorder we need to know why the pathology causes need to know why the pathology causes the behavioural disturbance, the neural the behavioural disturbance, the neural structures implicated in the pathology and structures implicated in the pathology and the cause of the dysfunction in the neural the cause of the dysfunction in the neural structures. With regard to psychopathy, structures. With regard to psychopathy, we have clear indications regarding why we have clear indications regarding why the pathology gives rise to the emotional the pathology gives rise to the emotional and behavioural disturbance and important and behavioural disturbance and important insights into the neural systems implicated insights into the neural systems implicated in this pathology. What remains unclear is in this pathology. What remains unclear is why these neural systems are dysfunctional. why these neural systems are dysfunctional.