The brains of pathological liars, habitual cheats and manipulators are structurally different than those of honest people, U.S. scientists said. A University of Southern California team studied 49 people and found those known to be liars had up to 26 percent more prefrontal white matter, or wiring in the brain, and less prefrontal gray matter than others, according to the study, published in next month’s British Journal of Psychiatry and released today.
