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

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Is There Anything That Is Typical About Psychopaths?

There was a common mode, there was a common group of structures that were turned off versus normals. Those were turned off when put into a scanner like a pet scann er p emora. So people with impulsive murder, they had the orbital cortex was turned off, but the minglos looked normal. And so is able to see in different people that areas that were hot spots or cold spots were different if people with different kinds of ampithy versus not.

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