The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile Compared to a control brain (top), neuroscientist James Fallon’s brain (bottom) shows significantly decreased activity in areas of the frontal lobe linked to empathy and morality—anatomical patterns
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