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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. you're looking at scans of murderers, of schizophrenics, normal brain scans, p.e.t. scans and your own brain scan. you discover that in yo...

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 person's 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, it's 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 rules of behavior. but actually the deep morality, what we consider morality is not there. >> do yo...

>> 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 person's 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, it's 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 rules of behavior. but actually the deep morality, what we consider...

Issues. i always think it's 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. >> we've 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 up in the hour ahead, hundreds of thousands of people in west virginia are being told they should...

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. i'm like what are you talking about? it made me mad when i realized what he was suggesting. and her mot...