The disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and discloses a display panel, a method for driving the same, and a display device. In embodiments of the disclosure, a switch circuit is between a group of shift registers and respective gate lines to transmit a scan signal output by the corresponding shift register group to the respective gate lines, wherein the shift register group performs forward or backward scanning on the respective gate lines, that is, the display device can perform both forward scanning and backward scanning so that an application field of the display device can be greatly extended.