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Psychopaths show overactive dopamine systems

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March 16, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  271 Comments

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Why do psychopaths go after what they want regardless of the negative consequences they may experience? According to the journal Nature Neuroscience, the answer may be chemical—an overactive dopamine reward system.

Read Driven toward reward without regard for consequence on Time.com.

Read the scientific study, Mesolimbic dopamine reward system hypersensitivity in individuals with psychopathic traits, in Nature Neuroscience.

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Scientific research

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  1. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    March 31, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    OMG EB!!!!! :0 🙂

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  2. hens

    March 31, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    onesteppers i was just thinking that ‘laugh you ass off’ we need to make a vidio..but my ass fell off a long time ago, dont know where it went , it used to be a nice bubble butt that looked good in wranglers but now its just flat and saggin – 32 waist no butt – i have nice legs and arms tho – i dont recognize the face, it’s some old man looking back at me in the mirror.

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  3. hens

    March 31, 2010 at 11:38 pm

    my phone number is br549 please call and be obscene..

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  4. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    March 31, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    well obviously your butt crawled up to your waist hens. (that’s ‘lady math’)

    it’s weird to age isn’t it?! i have aged so much this last year – quite a lot to get used to. i am hoping some of this will reverse when i am out of the toxic environment and some of the stressors come off. (that’s lady talk for fat. ;))

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  5. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    March 31, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    hens!!!

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  6. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    March 31, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    we need to get oxy to make some bank transfers and some phone calls – i have a cell and a land line she could have soem fun with, and oh…..a half dozen email addresses….f**k THAT would be funny!

    i had this fantasy a couple of months ago of the lovefraud team – we would spath and take down each other’s spaths (much less triggering and very satisfying…sort of a pay it forward system.) have found a couple of people interested in joining!

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  7. ErinBrock

    March 31, 2010 at 11:53 pm

    DEEEELLLEEEETE!

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  8. Ox Drover

    March 31, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    Oh, you guys!!!! Tooooo funny! BTW Henry, that “old person” looking at you in the mirror is not your grandfather haunting your house, it is YOU!!!! Yea, (sigh) I have aged 20 years in the last five (almost six now) since the hubby died, but you know, I’ve decided that getting past the age where every guy is hitting on me is okay….I can now “hit on” all the cute young guys that my son is friends with and none of the guys get mad, they think I am SOOOO CUTE! And sooooo sweet! That’s one thing an old man can’t do that an old lady can!

    Oh, tonight I watched Special Victims Unit and they had ANN MARGARET of all people playing this washed up “bleach blonde” and several other “former stars” playing different “former much younger stars” roles and every one of them had BAAAAAAD PLASTIC SURGERY and you could just barely tell who they were (can’t remember their names) and it was TERRIBLE. No matter how they had aged it would have looked BETTER than the PLASTIC FACE the doctors gave them.

    Gosh I would rather have all my wrinkles and look like an apple doll than to have my face look like a BARBIE Doll gone BAD!

    There is this woman who goes to the auction I go to sometimes and she has platinum hair down to her butt, has had all kinds of “stuff” done, and dresses like a hooker on the stroll and people refer to her as “BOTOX BARBIE” and it fits.

    I may be older and wrinkled-er but you know, I earned every one of these LAUGH LINES and ate every pound of chocolate to produce these LOVE HANDLES so I’m happy just like I am.

    Ah, natural! I never thought I would see the day that I looked 100 times better than Ann Margaret, but today is IT!

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  9. Ox Drover

    March 31, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Glad I missed it! Not even curious about what they were posting but hope they didn’t hurt any one’s feelings. They aren’t worth worrying over any more. IGNORE, IGNORE IGNORE!!!!

    REPORT TO DONNA! END OF PROBLEM.

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  10. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:02 am

    i LOVED ann margaret.

    ….and on the flintstones!

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