Psychopathy is a personality disorder, it's something you choose to become, or choose to retain at the least - it's a personna created not just as a result of compensatory or narcissistic adaptation, but rather , it's a natural instinct and chosen desire to retain a disregard for human lives or feelings, and laws - it simply means that you care only about select things and if anyone gets in your way they are removed, regardless of their feelings.
There is no chemical basis or cause of psychopathy, it is an aura you choose to embrace, even if chemically you are amygdaloid suppressed, you may or may not be able to do anything about this, even oxytocin treatments, which would be hypothesized psychopathic personna's, actually make some psychopaths more aggressive, showing that it truly is in the mind on another level, besides, psychopaths have a wicked will, if they don't want to change, they won't change..it doesn't matter how much someone tries to convince them, they simply choose not to be shaken .
It's like Michael Cain said,
Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money, they can't be bought, bullied, or negotiated with, some men just want to watch the world burn.
And indeed, one way or another, whether just lying their way into higher corporations, or whether making up lies to hurt others, or whether going 360 degrees and burning a city down - psychopaths engage in whatever, whenever, without inhibition, they may think about it, but it doesn't phase them , and they are naturals at going above and beyond....
OP , there is really no benefit to being todays definition of a psychopath, you can be disinhibited and fearless without being a psychopath, think like this, would you rather be the "light" equivalent to the psychopath; a vigilante, knight, a noble, someone who regards truth and acts to inform with fearlessness, or someone who is more or less holding very few truths to their heart, and having no long-term goals except money and power.....it's more difficult to go against the grain of society and this is steadily becoming a psychopathic grain, so to be one against the rising psychopathy would be a more noble accomplishment, worth far more merit ....than being without values.
Psychopaths usually have a variable gene set, usually either have adrenal fatigue or overactive adrenals, typically have more adrenaline on their strong days, but deficient levels of noradrenaline, which is weird, because usually those two are hand in hand, because of the placement of noradrenaline, which happens to be more present in the frontal cortex and amygdala than the pure adrenaline, without the nor, this may be a reason why psychopaths tend to rely heavily on cocaine and meth to fuel their career, rage or w/e they do with themselves....their dopamine levels, if I remember correctly, are not high on average, but their reuptake sites are higher so their dopamine gets used up very quickly, so they are constantly seeking a rush, and usually cling to dopamine reuptake inhibitors such as cocaine, or ritalin, or things like meth that have similar effects.....because the DAT protein is higher in psychopaths, and I believe their dopamine auto receptors are also genetically dysfunctional, so they get more of a rush from stimulants than your average bear.....
They also typically have altered endorphin concentrations in the brain, which is also responsible for blunted emotions, and many of these type may have deficient levels of other endogenous opiates, like dynorphin and enkephalin, but more beta-endorphin and nociceptin....
Since these play a role in central nervous system, and the endorphins blunt norepinephrine release, but not so much adrenaline, this is the most plausible hypothesis in terms of those areas.......
But the brain and grey matter especially is so complex, you can't mimic psychopathy under normal circumstances, because we create alot of the chemical conditions by choosing to think a certain a way......and I don't believe that many psychopaths are healthy, some of them are, but some are not...just like some are successful, and can blend in, and some can't....
You got it wrong with the dopamine reuptake man...
its that psychopaths get more dopamine with evil stuff or some stuff like that.
as in, they get a rush from seeing someone in pain,etc.
god dam psychos, good for nothing!
I've got it wrong ? Lmao, you've got it wrong, ready to get crushed?
I'm going to first give reasoning, then evidence.
Then you can admit defeat and submit yourself.
1.) If psychopaths had less dopamine reuptake, then why would they cling to dopamine reuptake inhibitors like cocaine and similar drugs?
2.) If they get a dopamine "rush" from doing "evil things", then they don't have a rush to begin with, because they are doing things TO GET A RUSH, therefore, you defeated yourself with your own statement.
3.) Psychopaths are incredibly "prone to boredom", and hence why they seek a rush, because the little things that most people enjoy and find as quality of life, are not sufficient for your average psychopath - they need more stimulation. (!) (!)
Dopamine abnormalities linked to violence
A new study adds to evidence that abnormalities in the brain's use of the neurotransmitter dopamine play a role in violent behavior.
Using SPET (single-photon emission tomography), Jyrki Kuikka and colleagues compared striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) density in 21 impulsive violent offenders, 10 non-violent alcoholics, and 21 control subjects. A higher DAT density, they note, indica ates increased overall dopamine transmission. (The researchers compared their violent subjects to non-violent alcoholics in order to control for the effects of alcohol abuse, which was reported by all of the violent subjects.)
The researchers found that compared to the other two groups, violent offenders had a high DAT density and a "spotty" DAT distribution. These abnormalities, the researchers say, "may be associated with overactive and miscontrolled dopaminergic transmission n." Nonviolent alcoholics, in contrast, had significantly lower DAT densities than control subjects.
In addition, Kuikka et al. note, young violent offenders did not exhibit normal left-right asymmetry in DAT distribution, while scans of older violent offenders revealed a more normal distribution. This late normalization of asymmetry, the researchers say y, "may reflect late neurobiological maturation among habitually violent offenders."
The researchers say their findings are consistent with animal studies that suggest an association between aggression and increased dopamine activity in the brain.
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"Abnormal structure of human striatal dopamine re-uptake sites in habitually violent alcoholic offenders: a fractal analysis," Jyrki T. Kuikka, Jari Tiihonen, Kim A. Bergström, Jari Karhu, Pirkko Räsänen, and Markku Eronen, Neuroscience Letters, Vo ol. 253, 1998, pp. 195-197. Address: Jyrki T. Kuikka, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, jkuikka@uku.fi.
So all of thee above plus the study, shows that psychopaths do NOT have higher dopamine, they have dopamine that gets used up quickly , hence they are constantly seeking a rush, or challenge.
Oops, you lose. 
Edited by Area-1255, 27 December 2014 - 08:08 PM.
