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#647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Is It Possible to Diagnose Psychiatry?

You can't diagnose somebody these personality disorders, or psychiatric disorders by looking at their genetics or brain scans. It's defined in part by what the patient thinks about what they're doing. And so it's that interview, including some test you take on line, et cetera, or through a computer. Those together, that's how you define a psychopan. So you can't get it from the biological stuff. But once you have a diagnosis, then you can say why you're like that. That's when the genetics and the brain imaging come in.

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