It has come to my attention that many users of this board are intrigued with the fictitious and often times morbid illustrations of what a psychopath is. First of all I'd like to mention that I'm currently working towards my Ph.D in neuroscience, I was part of UCLA's master's program which ended back in 2012, and now my team of researchers and I work with subjects that have Antisocial Personality Disorder (such as myself) We're working on a study to find a correlation to how anonymity can effect adolescent brain development especially in the prefrontal gray matter. I know that most of you envision a psychopath to be a ruthless killer that isn't quenched of their killings and dark fantasies, but the truth is that most "psychopaths" are really people with APD. Psychopath is not a diagnosed disorder, rather a cluster of disorders stemming from conduct disorder which is a deviation of APD. I'll be popping in and out of this thread periodically while I take time off from reading and looking at data, but feel free to spark a conversation, and I'll do my best to elaborate more on the subject, and even my own life and the criteria I met to be diagnosed with APD and psychopathic traits.