The Psychopath Inside A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

Neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine and author of the book The Psychopath Inside A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain Dr. James H. Fallon

This is a psychopath who studies psychopaths but the story of how he discovered he was a psychopath will trip you up. You're never going to believe it.

I'm a neuroscientist. I do a lot of neuro anatomy and since about 1989, I've studied the pet scans, you know, brain imaging scans of killers, serial killers, really bad murders.

And they handed me the pile of my family scans and they were covered up so I couldn't see the names. And I've seen over a thousand of these so I could quickly go through to see if there's any gross abnormalities in the pet scans.

And then I got to the last scan and it looked at it, I said, okay guys, I called in the technicians. I said this is very funny because you know in the lab like any place you kid around with each other, right? And I said, okay, you switched him. You took one of the worst psychopaths from this pile of murders and he has switched it into my family. Ha ha.

They said no, they checked the computer, the machine, everything. They said is somebody in your family.

This is a psychopath who studies psychopaths but the story of how he discovered he was a psychopath will trip you up. You're never going to believe it.

I'm a neuroscientist...I've studied the pet scans...brain imaging scans of killers, serial killers, really bad murders.

I'm a psychopath, due to a brain scan.

And it's true. Okay, so I agree with that and the second thing about the nature of evil...they don't at a fundamental level think what they're doing is particularly wrong.

The book title is the psychopath inside, a neuroscientist journey into the dark side of the brain.