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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. ErinBrock

    April 1, 2010 at 12:02 am

    BOINK, BOINK, BOINK, BOINK, BOINK, BOINK, BOINK…..
    Hold on….I gotta go get the shotgun.
    STAND RIGHT THERE!!!

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  2. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:03 am

    well hens, he’s just gone out to get cigarettes….

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  3. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:04 am

    omg – oxy is making me wheeze AND clap!

    I take that back – it’s EBeeeeee!

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  4. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:09 am

    you’ve left it with your 30 year old face somewhere…mister april fool’s…..

    no more fools here, we be riding toward wisdom!

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  5. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:10 am

    would love to have oxy phone the spath today and have her try to sell her something….like empathy.

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  6. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:11 am

    not REAL empathy mind you, she wouldn’t know what to do with that.

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  7. hens

    April 1, 2010 at 12:11 am

    well chit i thot i had ya convinced lmao

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  8. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:14 am

    get off the floor! you have no a** to lose!

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  9. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    April 1, 2010 at 12:15 am

    …and EB would take YOU out!

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  10. hens

    April 1, 2010 at 12:15 am

    i see my twisted sense of humor is not appreciated tonite..

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