My final paper is going to be about how sociopaths brain works, also the procedure of diagnosing someone as a sociopath. Some people think that sociopaths are crazy or can hide emotions well. These are all stereotypical ideas of what a sociopath is, but we can't really predict if someone is a sociopath by just talking to them. The correct definition of a sociopath is a person with a personality manifesting itself in extreme antisocial, or not wanting the company of others, attitudes, behavior, and lack of conscience. They have different personalities ,such as being very charismatic to others and most importantly, they do not feel remorse. These characteristics of a sociopath could easily be mistaken for a regular person because in a normal
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This an important emotion for a normal development and scientist have little understanding of how this happens. According to Harma Meffert, a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health in Bethesda, she did a series of test to see if sociopaths really lack empathy. For instance, there were 26 participants that are classified as Sociopaths, or Psychopaths, they were shown a movie of people interacting with others by their hands (violently, affectionately, and rejection) while their brain activity was being measured. During the second stage, they were asked to really pay attention to a character so they could really feel their emotions. Final stage they went through each interaction as shown in the movie, like being slapped on the hand. This activated their somatosensory cortex, which is the region in the brain involving sensing …show more content…
James Fallon , a neuroscientist, was always fascinated with the brain. He studied the biological basis for behavior, and one of his specialties was to try and figure out how a killer's brain is different from yours and mine. Fallon made a surprising discovery about four years ago while talking to his grandmother. He did some research and found out that his ancestor was hanged for killing his mother in 1667 and that there were many more executions in his family for murder, like Lizzie Borden who murdered her father and stepmother with an Axe in 1882. Fallon looked at a picture of a non normal brain where there were yellow and red patches (which symbolizes that the brain is active in those parts of the brain) everywhere except the orbital cortex or the section between the eyes. This is thought to be only in sociopaths. To properly diagnose the disorder, they take an PET and they let them watch a series of movies and if the orbital cortex is blank then they are classified as a
This an important emotion for a normal development and scientist have little understanding of how this happens. According to Harma Meffert, a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health in Bethesda, she did a series of test to see if sociopaths really lack empathy. For instance, there were 26 participants that are classified as Sociopaths, or Psychopaths, they were shown a movie of people interacting with others by their hands (violently, affectionately, and rejection) while their brain activity was being measured. During the second stage, they were asked to really pay attention to a character so they could really feel their emotions. Final stage they went through each interaction as shown in the movie, like being slapped on the hand. This activated their somatosensory cortex, which is the region in the brain involving sensing …show more content…
James Fallon , a neuroscientist, was always fascinated with the brain. He studied the biological basis for behavior, and one of his specialties was to try and figure out how a killer's brain is different from yours and mine. Fallon made a surprising discovery about four years ago while talking to his grandmother. He did some research and found out that his ancestor was hanged for killing his mother in 1667 and that there were many more executions in his family for murder, like Lizzie Borden who murdered her father and stepmother with an Axe in 1882. Fallon looked at a picture of a non normal brain where there were yellow and red patches (which symbolizes that the brain is active in those parts of the brain) everywhere except the orbital cortex or the section between the eyes. This is thought to be only in sociopaths. To properly diagnose the disorder, they take an PET and they let them watch a series of movies and if the orbital cortex is blank then they are classified as a