It’s not easy to pick out a psychopath. Although both are subheadings of antisocial personality disorder, psychopaths have one key difference over sociopaths: their inability to feel emotions and make emotional attachments. Despite this inability, they are much like social chameleons; they learn to mimic the emotions of others, appearing normal and blending in seamlessly into society. Many people close to psychopaths don’t even know their true nature until they’ve outed themselves through heinous acts. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
