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Stories about: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brains of Psychopaths Differ from Normal Ones Investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) discovered in a new study that psychopaths display brain structures that are observably different from those of normal people. Experts showed that an area of the brain involved in underlying feelings such as guilt and sympathy, called the ventromedial prefr... 25 November 2011 10:59 GMT Early Birds May Have Had Thumbs A recent study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on October 3rd ended a 120-year-old controversy on what happened with the fingers of reptilians that evolved into birds. Many speculated that birds simply lost their pinky and ring finger, while others said that they still existed, but were inhibited from d... 4 October 2008 05:36 GMT