Abstract
The executive function is a collection of cognitive abilities that allow the anticipation and establishment of goals, the formation of plans and programs, the beginning of activities and mental operations, the auto regulation of tasks, and the ability to carry on them efficiently. Both psychopathy and disexecutive syndrome have been considered as prototypes of frontal lobe damage, although they have been related very recently.Psychopathy construct is not clear defined in the international classifications of mental disorders. They have focused only in the antisocial disorder of personality. A clear conceptual delimitation of psychopathy is necessary. The typical behaviours of psychopaths could be related with structural and functional brain alterations showed by the neuroimaging techniques and neuropsychological tests. These deficits are the neurological support of the inability of psychopaths to the integration of reasoning process with emotions, and specifically, of the presence of symptoms as impulsivity, inattention, context dependency, pathological perseverations and metacognitive alteration.The relevant conclusion of this study is the close relationship between reasoning and emotion. Executive function could be the explaining nexus of this connection.
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