James Fallon is a neuroscientist who has spent decades studying patterns of brain activity when he discovered that the activity and structures of his own brain were highly similar to the patterns of the psychopathic brains he'd been analyzing. In a quest to understand how and where his hypotheses might be wrong - after all, he'd believed these particular patterns to be the domain of murderous madmen - he began to delve deeper into the genetics that determine so much of our thoughts, feelings, actions, and emotions.
On the whole, I thought The Psychopath Inside was a fascinating look into brains and the intersection between nature and nurture. It certainly made me want to learn more about my own brain activity and genetics. Fallon occasionally got a bit too deep into the weeds and as a result it sometimes felt more like I was reading a neuroscience text. On the whole, though, the book is highly readable and extremely interesting.
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