This even includes their outside environment. When a child witnesses a tragic or traumatic event, it affects their lives, even if they do not remember it happened. Repressed memories can still control the way a person acts. Children who grew up in a war zone or watched their parents being abused were also found to be more likely to display symptoms of ASPD (Hancock, 2014, p. 100). A prime example of this situation exists in a man named James Fallon (Lewis, 2015). Fallon is a neuroscientist who studies the brains of criminals; specifically, he studied the brains of murderers and rapists. This means he worked closely with the brains of people who are considered sociopaths or psychopaths. Fallon stumbled upon an interesting discovery when studying brain scans when he looked at a picture of his own brain. He discovered that his brain looked exactly like the brains of the criminals he had been studying (Lewis, 2015). This discovery was important because it showed that not all people with ASPD are bad. Fallon had no criminal record and had a successful career as well as a nice family. It is believed that Fallon turned out relatively normal due to his childhood and the fact that he was well loved and cared for (Hancock, 2014, p.
This even includes their outside environment. When a child witnesses a tragic or traumatic event, it affects their lives, even if they do not remember it happened. Repressed memories can still control the way a person acts. Children who grew up in a war zone or watched their parents being abused were also found to be more likely to display symptoms of ASPD (Hancock, 2014, p. 100). A prime example of this situation exists in a man named James Fallon (Lewis, 2015). Fallon is a neuroscientist who studies the brains of criminals; specifically, he studied the brains of murderers and rapists. This means he worked closely with the brains of people who are considered sociopaths or psychopaths. Fallon stumbled upon an interesting discovery when studying brain scans when he looked at a picture of his own brain. He discovered that his brain looked exactly like the brains of the criminals he had been studying (Lewis, 2015). This discovery was important because it showed that not all people with ASPD are bad. Fallon had no criminal record and had a successful career as well as a nice family. It is believed that Fallon turned out relatively normal due to his childhood and the fact that he was well loved and cared for (Hancock, 2014, p.