Psychopathy, Amygdala and CU Traits

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Across
  1. 3. ______-Unemotional Traits Personality characteristics marked by a lack of empathy, guilt, and emotional expression, often associated with difficulty forming emotional connections.
  2. 5. Lower-than-normal levels of activity in a specific part of the brain.
  3. 7. _____________ complex. It he primary input station, receiving sensory information from the thalamus and cortex to process emotions, specifically mediating fear conditioning, anxiety, and reward-based decision-making.
  4. 9. A brain imaging technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed pictures of the brain and body.
Down
  1. 1. A personality pattern characterized by a lack of empathy, shallow emotions, manipulativeness, and often antisocial behavior.
  2. 2. ________ Amygdala Volume The combined size of both the left and right amygdala in the brain, often studied to understand emotional processing and behavior.
  3. 4. A small, almond-shaped structure in the brain that processes emotions, especially fear and threat detection, and helps trigger the body’s stress response.
  4. 6. The root word of the amygdala is the _______ word amygdalē (or amygdale), which does mean "almond".
  5. 8. ________ Response: The body’s automatic reaction to perceived danger, involving physical and emotional changes (like increased heart rate and alertness), often referred to as “fight, flight, or freeze.”