Thomas Joseph Bouchard's The Making Of A Serial Killer
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To call a person a psychopath is to say that they have a mental illness and displays it through a lack of compassion or care for his fellow man. These psychopaths show antisocial behaviors and show no remorse for their actions in violent crimes including rape and murder. They have no want for friends and family and have shown these traits at a very young age. This leads to the fact that these illnesses are not made just from the environment alone instead they are born with this and are without the feeling of regret and sorrowfulness of their actions and wish to cause harm upon others for their own strange satisfaction. In The Making of a Serial Killer it discusses the psychopath and how it is born rather than made. It begins with a man…show more content… I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.”. This clearly shows the lack of remorse shown by these so called crazy people. Ted's younger life and how he was raised by a very supporting family. It goes on to show research held by Thomas Joseph Bouchard,Jr. the Minnesota Professor of Psychology that showed how psychology is 60 percent heritable. In this study it demonstrated how the DNA or genetic makeup of someone can determine their mental stability. Brain scans have shown researchers at the University of Wisconsin that these diagnostic psychotic people share common characteristics in the brain. The criminals tested have shown a lack of connectivity between the amygdala, a piece of the brain that processes negative stimuli, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a part that translates information for the brain to comprehend. This issue can shed light on a psychopathic criminals mindset and why they don't feel emotional sorrow for their actions, but this study is very limited. These researchers have found that a rough childhood such as being abused by their parents can actually lead to a stronger connection between these two parts of the brain that can cause great amount of emotional connections. This leads to the fact that these diagnosed people aren't made through their experiences they are born with this…show more content… In an online article called serial killers born or made? it spoke about a study held by Dr. Richard Davidson demonstrated that these who suffer from a social disorder or people who have committed aggressive murders lack brain activity in the orbitofrontal cortex. This information can show us how these strange and aggressive actions come from problems in genetic makeup of someone which we are born with rather than being made that