Psychopathy, or the psychopathic spectrum?

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by Rant

As a side note, psychopathy isn't technically a brain disorder. At least, not in that it's something you can be diagnosed with. It's a classification for a series of behaviors associative with several mental disorders. Some of which are predispositional on a genetic basis.

Oh. My argument about psychopathy's spectral/dichotomous nature was based on the premise that psychopathy could be reliably diagnosed with no information other than the output of brain scans. If that isn't true, I retract my argument.

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by Rant

As a side note, psychopathy isn't technically a brain disorder. At least, not in that it's something you can be diagnosed with. It's a classification for a series of behaviors associative with several mental disorders. Some of which are predispositional on a genetic basis.

Oh. My argument about psychopathy's spectral/dichotomous nature was based on the premise that psychopathy could be reliably diagnosed with no information other than the output of brain scans. If that isn't true, I retract my argument.