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

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What Are the Personnes Associated With Psychopaths?

Psychopaths have an aleal aversion, a combined aversion of the testastron or androgen receptor. This is one reason why when males with psychopathy get older their aggression goes down. And so they become nicer, in a sense, only because they run out of energy to do it. There are other genes too there are others that may be associated with psycopathy. So none of the actual traits of psychopathy are always psychopathic. They're just used in the wrong way.

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