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Dr. Michelle Ward

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Psychopathy Is Not Just One Gene

Psychopaths don't have parts of the brain associated with empathy that are malfunctioning. Psychopathy is inherited but not just like one gene, oh dad's a psychopath sounds a psychopath, it's not like that. So you'll see it in a pedigree in a family but not necessarily one generation to the next. Gary what was James Fallon's podcast? The Irvine professor that was doing studies on psychopathy and he was looking through the controls and his family and himself and the controls all of a sudden he found a psychopath amongst the controls. And so he looked into his family and he's related to Lizzie Borden and his multiple generations of people that killed their family members. Nobody

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