Ana Seara Cardoso, researcher at Psychological Neuroscience Laboratory, published a book chapter entitled "The '(a)moral brain': When things go wrong".
In the past decades, a growing interest of neuroscience on moral judgment and decision-making has shed new light on the neurobiological correlates of human morality. In this chapter, we review what is currently known about the “moral brain”, and about the impairments found in this network in individuals with psychopathy, a condition whose characteristics indicate profound disturbances in moral processing. We present data from distinct samples which seem to converge on the notion that moral dysfunction observed in individuals with psychopathy stem from a disruption of affective components of moral processing rather than from an inability to compute moral judgments per se.