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61: Neuroscientist who found out he's a psychopath: Dr. James Fallon

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dr. James Fallon is renowned for his work in psychopathy. But a chance occurrence led him to realise something dark about his own family history...and the brain scans concurred... Listen to the bonus segment: http://patreon.com/andrewgold https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewGold1/membership Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Dr. James Fallon Links: The Psychopath Inside book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal-Journey/dp/1591846005 https://twitter.com/jameshfallon Andrew Gold Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com http://medium.com/@andrewgold1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Your brain is your brain is telling you you know

0:52.0

you're a serial killer. So why, as far as I know, are you not a serial killer?

1:01.0

Why would I answer that?

1:15.5

I'm welcoming on the show today, the eminent Dr. James Fallon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California and don't I sound excited. James is renowned for his work in all sorts of neurosciency fields but is perhaps most well

1:20.5

known for his developments in the field of psychopathy. His story is pretty exceptional and I'll let

1:27.3

him tell it without giving too much away, although I had to a bit in the title to entice you all to

1:32.4

listen to this, so I will say this much. While looking at brain

1:35.9

scans, he came across one that clearly denoted that of a dangerous killer psychopath,

1:41.4

before realizing it was his own. We speak about brain scans, genes,

1:47.0

Alzheimer's and stuff like that, as well as what it is like for him to be a psychopath

1:51.8

and the difference between that and a sociopath

1:54.0

how one becomes one all sorts of things I take a little while before getting to the

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