{"id":218481,"date":"2025-07-22T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-the-psychopathic-brain-struggles-with-emotion-and-control"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:07:09","slug":"why-the-psychopathic-brain-struggles-with-emotion-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-the-psychopathic-brain-struggles-with-emotion-and-control","title":{"rendered":"Why the Psychopathic Brain Struggles With Emotion and Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-psychopathic-brain-struggles-with-emotion-and-control2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its core, psychopathy is not simply a matter of bad choices or poor upbringing \u2014 growing evidence suggests it has a biological foundation, shaped by the intricate wiring of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study offers fresh insights into how structural brain connectivity patterns are linked to psychopathic traits and the externalizing behaviors that often accompany them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its core, psychopathy is not simply a matter of bad choices or poor upbringing \u2014 growing evidence suggests it has a biological foundation, shaped by the intricate wiring of the human brain. Now, a new study offers fresh insights into how structural brain connectivity patterns are linked to psychopathic traits and the externalizing behaviors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}