[lbo-talk] NPR: A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret

[Carrol Cox]

It would seem to me that the interesting feautre is not that his brain
looked like the brains of killers but that he was NOT a killer. It seems
neurology doesn't explain everything. We knew that, but still this
dramatic demonstration of the fact is interesting.

Carrol

Joseph Catron wrote:
> 
> After learning his violent family history, he examined the images and
> compared them with the brains of psychopaths. His wife's scan was
> normal. His mother: normal. His siblings: normal. His children:
> normal.
> 
> "And I took a look at my own PET scan and saw something disturbing
> that I did not talk about," he says.
> 
> What he didn't want to reveal was that his orbital cortex looks inactive.
> 
> "If you look at the PET scan, I look just like one of those killers."
> 
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127888976
> 
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