Study links impulsive, antisocial psychopathy traits to specific brain changes, offering new insight into diagnosis and potential rehabilitation strategies.

Those brain structures then were compared with people who only exhibited similarly antisocial behavior from ages 7 to 26. Similar changes weren't found.

A UCLA study has mapped a critical brain hub in mice that regulates stress responses and social behavior, shedding new light ...

So far, however, the link between political behavior and the brain has been rarely explored, as it was not viewed as central to the understanding of mental health disorders.

Over the past decades, some lawyers have started using brain imaging scans as evidence during criminal trials, to provide a possible explanation for the criminal behavior of defendants. This was ...

After decades of studying the brain, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus identified a link between brain damage and criminal behavior.

New research suggests that damage to a key part of the brain involved in judgment and emotional regulation could explain why some people suddenly begin displaying violent or criminal behavior.

While much is known about how the brain controls automatic responses to cold, the neural mechanisms underlying behavioral thermoregulation remain poorly understood. This is especially true for ...

While not everyone with this type of brain injury becomes violent the study suggests that damage to this tract may play a role in new onset criminal behavior after injury.

For decades, researchers insisted the left brain dominates all aspects of language. But rare cases of "word deafness" and new experiments reveal a hidden symmetry.