Is There Any Hope At All For Psychopaths?

Low Levels Of Love Hormones

Low oxytocin sometimes results in low empathy according to researchers. This problem with having empathy may be correlated to low levels of “love hormone” and the role of the vMPFC in psychopathy. The vMPFC, narrates Buckholtz and his colleagues, is the controller of the reward-processing ventral striatum. In case we are offered $100,000 to kill someone, our vMPFC would inform the ventral striatum, “Hang on a minute! You may want to reassess that trade-off — is it really worth taking someone else’s life for money? And can you bear the consequences of your actions?” But Buckholtz’s research has discovered that the vMPFC and the ventral striatum are not interacting.