This course offers a comprehensive review of the neurobiological underpinnings of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) with and without psychopathy. Integrating recent neuroimaging and neurochemical research, it provides psychologists and clinicians with conceptual models linking brain chemistry, neural circuitry, and behavioral manifestations, highlighting implications for assessment, case formulation, and emerging pharmacological and psychosocial interventions.

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Program Objectives

Describe 3 key neurochemical mechanisms underlying antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy.

Identify 2 differences in neural empathic processing between ASPD with and without psychopathy.

Explain the role of striatal glutamate:GABA imbalance in decision-making deficits in violent offenders.

Summarize 3 clinical implications for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment planning of ASPD +/−P.