A neuroscientist who has spent the last 20 years studying the brains of murderers discovered that he himself had a brain with the potential to be a psychopath.
Jim Fallon, after learning that his family was full of suspected killers, analyzed brain images of the family and discovered that of living family members, only he has the brain patterns that mark a psychopath.
Fallon's brain scan revealed a lack of activity in the orbital cortex, which has to do with decision-making and aggression control. «I am 100% sure. I have the pattern, the risk pattern, ”said Fallon. In a sense, I am a natural killer.
Fallon says that, unlike criminals whose brain has the necessary patterns to become a murderer, he had a happy childhood, free from violence and abuse. Fallon believes that this is the cause that has helped him not become a murderer.
Studying his own brain, he says, has led him to rethink his ideas about genetic and environmental factors in the development of crime.
I leave you with a conference of his:
If you want to know more about psychopaths, this video is very explanatory: