On brain scans, it looks like their orbital frontal cortex, which is right above the eyes, is a little bit less active, or a lot less active, than the amygdale, when they're processing information. So he believes that the brains of serial killers operate differently. And his theory basically involves a couple of things, three things, but two of them is brain function and genes. Jim Fallon has studied the brains of serial killers for something like 20 years, and he had a theory about what makes a serial killer's brain different from yours and mine. Barbara, always nice to have you on the program.īARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY: Thanks so much, Neal.ĬONAN: Now, you got interested in the subject through a neuroscientist named James Fallon at UC Irvine. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty joins us here in Studio 3A. Email us, You can also join the conversation at that aforementioned website. We're going to focus a little bit later in the program, on how it's being introduced as evidence in courts of law, so if you've dealt with criminals as lawyers or in law enforcement, if you've come in contact with neurolaw, give us a call, 80. Later in the hour, what makes a psychopath, and does neuroscience tell us that once a psychopath, always a psychopath? But first, we want to hear from those of you who have questions about this new research and its implications. If you missed the broadcasts on MORNING EDITION, you can find a link to them on our website, and she joins us in just a moment. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty just completed a three-part series for NPR on this topic. The data challenge how we think about right and wrong, about guilt and innocent and about the penalty to fit the crime. Scientific research on brain scans and DNA provide new insight on what makes some kinds of criminals different than you and me, information that's begun to be introduced as evidence in some trials. Today, the criminal brain and what's being called neurolaw.
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