Is There Any Hope At All For Psychopaths?

Buckholtz Explanation

Buckholtz suggests, “The striatum assigns values to different actions without much temporal context. We need the prefrontal cortex to make prospective judgments [about] how an action will affect us in the future — ‘If I do this, then this bad thing will happen.'” He explains, “[I]f you break that connection in anyone, they’re going to start making bad choices because they won’t have the information that would otherwise guide their decision-making to more adaptive ends. [Psychopaths are] not aliens, they’re people who make bad decisions.”