“…First, it has been found that primary psychopathic individuals with high levels of antisocial and impulsive behavior are characterized by both a lower stability and lower flexibility of PFC mediated executive processes during goal directed behavior (Dolan, 2012;Gao et al, 2011;Ishikawa et al, 2001;Lapierre, Braun, & Hodgins, 1995;Mitchell, Colledge, Leonard, & Blair, 2002;Moltó, Poy, Segarra, Pastor, & Montañés, 2007;Poythress & Hall, 2011). This PFC processing profile could underlie the automatic hyperfocus on immediate and strong reinforcements (insufficient stability to engage in longer term endeavors; easily bored) and the impaired behavioral adaptations to non-reward, punishment, or peripheral warning cues (impaired response modulation; inability to learn from experience) as observed in disinhibited and criminal subtypes of primary psychopathy (Blair et al, 2005;Newman & Lorenz, 2003).…”