Via ScienceDaily:
“People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front part of the brain… the area largely responsible for functions such as planning, impulse control and acting in accordance with social norms.”
Interesting. I’ve read before that psychopaths seem to have no control over their own impulses. It’s as if a psychopath is a Freudian Id with no ego or superego. It looks like that’s about right, and what causes psychopathy is a defect in the front part of the brain, which controls impulse, and as a side-job processes smell.
