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Found out i had the brain of a psychopath. but he wrote a book about it "the psychopath inside." his story is remarkable. turns out his family tree has more than its share of murderers. to be clear fallon himself has not killed anyone. he ace professor of psychiatry and human behavior the at university of california irvine. he has a theory about why having the brain of a psychopath has not landed him in prison. i spoke to him earlier. >> so this is amazing. youre looking at scans of murderers, o...

Brain scan if somebody is a psychopath? >> not really. what you can see are changes consistent with traits. i can look at different brain scans and say that persons got a language problem, that person a problem with their visual system or sense of space. you can see traits. >> traits of a psychopath that are clear to you that you think you have are what? >> well, its a very poor sense of morality, first of all. like for me and for people who are psychopaths they can have a sense of ethics, the r...

>> so you can actually see in a brain scan if somebody is a psychopath? >> not really. what you can see are changes consistent with traits. i can look at different brain scans and say that persons got a language problem, that person a problem with their visual system or sense of space. you can see traits. >> traits of a psychopath that are clear to you that you think you have are what? >> well, its a very poor sense of morality, first of all. like for me and for people who are psychopaths they c...

Issues. i always think its important to highlight these issues. so certainly perhaps it may have made things work a little bit more quickly. but at i think the expense of exploiting a young child. >> weve got to leave it there. the one thing everybody can agree on, everybody hopes this child and this family gets the help they clearly need. this mother, 16-year-old mother in particular. sonny, sergeant wells, appreciate both you being on. thank you very much. >> thank you, anderson. well coming...

Lapse into a coma after having cardiac arrest and a stroke simultaneously. within days -- i mean flat line coma. terry never was. but connie -- whatever the brain scan said, she will never wake up, vegetable. and this is 1985, a long time ago. within three days her neurologist approached me with her mother sitting next to me in the waiting room, ignoring her mother and looked at me in the eyes and said you do realize, you have the power to put an end to this. and i was just -- i was just 25. im ...

That caused her to lapse in a coma. within days, within days, she went from flat coma like. terry never was. connie was flat out. and whatever the brain scan said no activity in the brain and she will never weak up. vegetable. and this is 1985, a long time ago, right. within three days her neurologist sat next to me with her mother and ignoring the mother looked at moo, you do realize you have the power to put an end to this? and i was 25, i mean what are you talking about? it made me mad when i...

That caused her to lapse in a coma. within days, within days, she went from flat coma like. terry never was. connie was flat out. and whatever the brain scan said no activity in the brain and she will never weak up. vegetable. and this is 1985, a long time ago, right. within three days her neurologist sat next to me with her mother and ignoring the mother looked at moo, you do realize you have the power to put an end to this? and i was 25, i mean what are you talking about? it made me mad when i...

Plethora of physical problems that caused her to lapse in a coma. within days, within days, she went from flat coma like. terry never was. connie was flat out. and whatever the brain scan said no activity in the brain and she will never weak up. vegetable. and this is 1985, a long time ago, right. within three days her neurologist sat next to me with her mother and ignoring the mother looked at moo, you do realize you have the power to put an end to this? and i was 25, i mean what are you talkin...

That caused her to lapse in a coma. within days, within days, she went from flat coma like. terry never was. connie was flat out. and whatever the brain scan said no activity in the brain and she will never weak up. vegetable. and this is 1985, a long time ago, right. within three days her neurologist sat next to me with her mother and ignoring the mother looked at moo, you do realize you have the power to put an end to this? and i was 25, i mean what are you talking about? it made me mad when i...

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