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Entries from April 2009

4 Things You MUST know NOW about the dopamine transporter 9-repeat allele

April 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Dopamine transporter alleles and obnoxious behavior.

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Tags: ADHD · Anger · Behavior · Dopamine · Genetics and heredity · Personality disorder · Psychopath (also sociopath) · Rage

Adolescent white matter and delay discounting: the Bad Decision Dinosaur

April 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Blame your budding white matter for all the things you regret doing in your youth.

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Tags: Behavior · Brain anatomy · Nature vs. nurture · White Matter

Economics: Chicago School is Toast, but Financial Services Cheating Is Also To Blame (Off topic)

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Cheaters are another reason for income inequality.

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Tags: Ayn Rand · Behavior · Corporate Governance · Corruption · Greed · Lying and cheating · Neuro Financial Doc Review · Neuroeconomics · New York Times · Public Library of Science

Male strippers are the new normal, but bankers getting zillions is obscene

April 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Banker pay is way more obscene than the male strippers “Thunder from Down Under.”

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Tags: Corporate Governance · Corruption · Greed · Neuroeconomics · New York Times · Sex

Friday Dysfunctional Roundup: Unsuccessful white collar psychopath friends and family who have been disbarred or had SEC enforcement actions taken against them

April 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

White collar fraudfeasors specialize in being Machiavellian, but who gets caught?
1. Egoists who thought they were above it.
2. Blatant sociopaths.
3. Country clubbers who rely on their clubiness (affiliate-psychopaths)
4. The Envious.

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Tags: Behavior · Bullying · Corporate Governance · Corruption · Dysfunctional Roundup · Greed · Lawsuit · Machiavellianism · Nature vs. nurture · Neuro Editorial · Neuro Financial Doc Review · Neuroeconomics · Personality disorder · Psychopath (also sociopath) · Punishment · Seven deadly sins

Hey Look! Someone mapped science!

April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

No wonder no one ever talks to each other. If pharmaceutical research is New York, cognitive science is LA.

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Tags: Analytical methods · Humor · Public Library of Science · SSRN · Science blogging

Psychopathy as dementia: Is TDP-43 proteinopathy the culprit?

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

If you look at psychopathy as frontotemporal dementia without the motor or memory impairment, then you look to the dementia-causing agents, like TDP-43.

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Tags: Alzheimer's · Anti-sociopath-activism · Behavior · Brain anatomy · Conditions or Diagnosis · Dopamine · Fragile X · Genetics and heredity · Molecules · Musculo-skeletal · Personality disorder · Psychopath (also sociopath) · Schizophrenia

Thank you to all the good people in the world; if I ran the world. . .

April 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments

It’s a miracle, but some people are actually good.

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Tags: Altruism/moral behavior · Anti-sociopath-activism

Friday Dysfunctional Roundup: “Impersonating” in the news

April 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Mostly cop wannabes.

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Tags: Anti-sociopath-activism · Dysfunctional Roundup · Lying and cheating · Psychopath (also sociopath)

Psychopathy paradigm shift: Is antisocial behavior seen in psychopaths (or sociopaths) really frontotemporal dementia?

April 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In your 30’s or 40’s? Lying? Cheating? Delusions of grandeur? Are you Paranoid? Uncooperative? Afraid of being exploited? Are you exploiting others? These are symptoms of cognitive decline. Get checked out for early onset frontotemporal dementia.

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Tags: Anti-sociopath-activism · Apathy · Behavior · Brain anatomy · Conditions or Diagnosis · Nature vs. nurture · Personality disorder · Psychopath (also sociopath) · Schizophrenia