{"id":913488,"date":"2026-06-17T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/brain-scans-reveal-a-shocking-difference-between-psychopaths-and-other-people\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:13:42","slug":"brain-scans-reveal-a-shocking-difference-between-psychopaths-and-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/brain-scans-reveal-a-shocking-difference-between-psychopaths-and-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain scans reveal a shocking difference between psychopaths and other people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered a striking brain difference linked to psychopathy: people with psychopathic traits were found to have a striatum \u2014 a brain region tied to reward, motivation, and decision-making \u2014 that was about 10% larger on average than those without such traits. Using MRI scans and psychological assessments on 120 participants&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260510030946.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Gaylene Culton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered a striking brain difference linked to psychopathy: people with psychopathic traits were found to have a striatum \u2014 a brain region tied to reward, motivation, and decision-making \u2014 that was about 10% larger on average than those without such traits. Using MRI scans and psychological assessments on 120 participants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2452,22214,192],"tags":[8966,14854],"class_list":["post-913488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brain","category-scans","category-sports","tag-brain","tag-scans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}