Title:
The psychopath inside : a neuroscientist's personal journey into the dark side of the brain
Author:
Fallon, James H.
ISBN:
1591846005
9781591846000 :
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Publication Information:
New York : Current, 2013.
Physical Description:
viii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
What is a psychopath? -- Evil brewing -- The brain of a killer -- Bloodlines -- A third leg to stand on -- Going public -- Love and other abstractions -- A party in my brain -- Can you change a psychopath? -- Why do psychopaths exist?
Abstract:
A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.
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