Are Killers’ Brains Different?
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2018
- How can someone commit mass murder? Neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The University of Irvine, Dr. James Fallon joins The Doctors to share that the reason might be anatomical.
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Why does Judy Ho have a creepy excited look on her face the whole time.
LilXan Gallagher ikr😂
I was wondering the same thing
And I thought her gleeful grinning was all in my head. Lol.
because shes a psychologist...?
LilXan Gallagher she a killer on her days off
Recently I read a manga (japanese comic) about a serial killer called Morita, who kills for pleasure, and targets the girlfriend of his ex-classmate.
Morita has all the traits of a psychopath: callousness, impulsivity, inability to empathize with anyone, lazyness, seemingly "normal" façade, chronic boredom, propensity towards violence and parasitic behaviour (he blackmails people into giving him money).
He is at first presented as the most despicable piece of shit ever, but as the story progresses and Morita is developed, we begin to see just how messed up his situation is, and we begin to feel a certain sort of pity.
He has terrible headaches when he isn't killing or hurting anyone, and when he sleeps, he has painful memories of when he was bullied and humilliated in school, the one time when he wasn't in control.
At the end, when Morita fails to murder his main target, and while aimlessly wandering through a park, he begins to reflect on his life and behaviour.
He remembers a dream he once had about walking throughout a city full of people, who were smiling, laughing and having a good time, but as he saw himself in 3rd person, he could see the inside of his head, and noticed that his brain was "different". His whole amygdala was off, and the his frontal cortex was viscerally destroyed.
He then proceeds to remember his saddest memory: After being bullied in highschool, when he was returning home as usual, he began to notice strange patterns in his thoughts, and questioned himself about his violent fantasies about killing and brutalizing living beings.
When he realized he was different, he stopped, crouched on the floor, and sobbed in solitude.
He despaired because he understood that society would never accept his sexual perversion and he felt like everyone was his "enemy", being condemned to stray from the ordinary, happy and moral path of the everyman.
When I saw Morita as a bullied teenager crying on a field because he realized he was sick in the head, a shockwave of realization struck me.
Psychopaths don't choose to be born like this, it's not their fault that they cannot empathize with people or that they have sexual perversions such as murdering people or hurting children. It's just the way they are born.
Morita is of course a fictional case, I doubt psychopaths can be as self reflective as him.
It's as if a cockroach began to analyse itself, and despaired because they realized they are seen as "disgusting" in the eyes of humans. But they are cockroaches nonetheless, they can't help but be who they are, it's us who find them disgusting.
In the end, Morita is found by the police after sleeping in a park, as he gets up, tears of relief are running down his face.
When he finally realized what he was, he could not help himself, it's not until the end that he is moved, when he has hit rock bottom.
It's also kind of ironic, since his tears are in the end still selfish, he's crying because he pities himself, not because he feels regret.
Still, it was a fascinating story.
I think one of the famous serial killer who can relate to this is Jeffrey Dahmer. He said he can't count how many times he hoped someone caught him. He wants to stop his compulsive behavior but he got lucky to escape so he continues.
I found this comment very interesting and informative. Is the manga titled Himeanole?
Wow that's a long comment 😮
Finally someone sees the psychopaths suffering. I have been a victim of crime done by psychopaths and I lost my home, everything I owned and later was almost killed due to another. Finally I read up on it and at the end, I found rbain damages. being sick myself but in physical illness caused by stress, I pity them deeply and we can here see why: Its not just a "emotional shut off" as psychiatrists say, its a COMPLETE shutdown of large parties of the brain. No wonder they dont react nor act as healthy brains, they cant and thats why therapy doesnt work wither, cant talk away a brain damage.
Personally I believe it is caused by a nutrient defeciency in the womb and thats why they are born with it. B3 is lacking within schizophrenia and I have tred to get one of them to try B3 but he lied and said he had when he hadnt so I never got to find out if it would have worked. Its two different damages anyway; schizo is of the center of the brain while psychopathy is of the prefrontal cortrex but..An interesting idea.
@@Vixinafulit's fascinating how they know so much about how the brain works
Honestly, we need a system in place to prepare for something like this.
Covid
@@tomfoolery3799 yes that's literally everyones brain now lol
You can only decrease murder you can't completely prevent it lol
they’re using “psychopath” & “murderer” interchangeably
he meant psychopaths who committed murder
This was the worst thing Ive ever seen. The psychiatry has for so many decades made us believe "Theyre just emotionally shut off due to trauma.." Thats clearly BS, their brains are to 80% completely dead which explains the dead look in their eyes. The "psychopathic stare" The flat affect. I have studied psychopathy for my own good the past 4 years bc of relationships with them and this was the one video that had my eyes light up and "AHA, I get it! I need to RUN!" There is no hope, no room for improvement, they CANNOT better themselves or feel what we feel and well..this explains it all. They look human, the walk human but they are non functioning. *Thank you* for this, *THANK YOU* !
the one started with p born with it wile the one started with s are not born with it. just simple google away would show the definition and psychiatry were never confused by that.
I had an uncle who was a murderer. But he wasn't a psychopath. The way my mom and grandmother described him was that he was very organized with his personal belongings when he was in school, he never spoke bad words or slang words. He was very proper. He was my moms older brother. My mom says that he was very generous with his money, like he would sometimes give them money or buy them shoes or even a whole set of outfits. But the day he killed someone it was out of revenge. He killed his own friend cause his friend beat my grandpa and stole his shoes and jacket. So my uncle took at as a disrespect against our whole family. And the way my mom describes it was that he went out. Stabbed him to death, came back home, took a shower and left to the shopping mall. He showed no remorse. He ended up spending alot of time in prison for other things im not aware of. And recently he was released after years. And he seemed like a normal person. He even would be very kind to my grandma and take her out to eat to make up for all the years away from her. Basically he is not the type to kill for fun. But he has no problem killing. He can do it and continue his day like nothing ever happened. He was killed 2 years ago. That's why i kept using the word "was" alot.
@synergy lack of empathy, first thing revealed…
I feel like I feel empathy, but I could easily dissociate from it. Like when I feel an emotion like anger or sadness too much, I start to dissociate from my empathy and act very cold. Kinda like Bree from desperate housewives.
Was he quite an unemotional person?
Wow, what a story..Really glad you shared it.
One time my friend hit their head and they got like their brain scanned and it looked like the psychopath one
“Half the brain is missing”
Believe me it’s worse than that, much worse
I’m taking a behavioral neuroscience class this fall and got really excited about it so I went to the bookstore and just happened to come across The Anatomy of Violence and immediately became hooked on this subject. There’s so much neuroscience is gonna do to influence how we handle criminals and what criminal justice looks like. I feel like when you’re little you learn that killers and all criminals are just bad evil people, but now we can really examine the relationship between anatomy and conscious actions. We’re getting a better understanding of factors that lead people to commit crimes and why they don’t recoil at the thought of harming someone else like everyone else would. Humans are not perfect creatures, our bodies fail us all the time and our brains are no exception
It is definitely the most fascinating area of neuroscience for sure! Though it is a shame that such a tiny proportion of funding gets allocated to investigating psychopathy... And strange given how much society would benefit from it!
I agree, it's a fascinating subject, but at the end of the day it is not the fault of a rabid dog that it has rabies - but we still deal with them...
My psychiatrist thinks theres something wrong with me so I have to get a brain scan, but the thing is I have braces so I have to wait two years to actually get the scan. Its the only time I've been thankful for having braces.
4:00 - 4:53 Is that why some serial killers get turned on when they kill?
No
3:25 bro is being so dramatic 😂😂
Your favourite surgeon who saved your life and your favourite politician fits the profile.
Most people with psychopathic tendencies live regular lives. Instead of the doctor asking if we should keep murders locked up because they’re ill, why don’t we attempt to fix the mental health crisis and get people proper treatment before shit even happens
I agree but mental health is still a big taboo
The government is never that sensible!
How do we fix brain damages like these?
No, we are not capable of fixing brains like this, it's impossible right now.
Technology is at the point now where your thoughts can be read and written. Hopefully it gets used for good purposes.
Yes true true.
Yes hopefully it get used only for good purpose. I would love to know why a person can be a serial killer while others like myself scare of blood so much?
That’s invasive. It’s our God given right to think our own thoughts. They ain’t controlling our minds too
@@nakha9123 serial killers are created in my opinion.
I’m a cereal killer - I murdered that bowl of cornflakes this morning.
I woke up thirsty for breakfast, so i found some hooped girls lured them into the bowl i milked all over them and then ate them all up nice and then i break fast for it leaving nothing but bones and my milk.
I love serial killer..I attractive to them I don't know why..
Superego in psychology is not a bad thing but a good thing, it tells you what is not societally acceptable, it balances the id which knows no boundaries but only the reward, together they make ego which tells you to get the reward in a societally acceptable manner.
I killed something today
An ant
whyyyfu 2 you evil person
Give him the death
penalty
Funny aren’t you.
whyyyfu 2 ur brain is pitch black
I killed a frog tho
We've known this for years, why is this news?
It was a theory that was hardly proved. Now we can back it up better, so hooray :")
Not news. This isn't a news show lol. They're just trying to help educate people that it is a thing.
Anna
katemkat23 It's a medical show, they usually talk about current upcoming medical break throughs, not something we've known for years.
^You said usually. So it won't hurt to bring up old news to remind people!
that moment when a doctor has the same name as a late night talk show host 😂
James Fallon = Jimmy Fallon lol
Dont know death penalty is wrong or not but the limbic system is not turned off congenitally or on its own. this is something that you acquire in life during your development also. although there can be genetic components contributing to this.
i have been a part of many research projects that used functional neuroimaging to map different areas of brain in our daily life.
Lots of brain areas are involved, it's so interesting!
Can you do an episode on ADD not to be confused with ADHD but both would be good though please
Thank you 👍❤️!!!!!
Ciara Weston omg I have ADD and everyone mistakes it for ADHD lmao
we may be attention deficit but we are not hyper
"They are inter-spiecies predators!" Oh my GOD!! Take a moment to inhale that!!
Intra-species not interspecies
Whyyyyyy would you make me go to website????
Im so into the vid and then its cut!
😭😭😭😭😭
Jimmy Fallon, Phd Neuroscientist.
They need to put WS under the MRI
Wait, dr. James found out that he’s actually a psychopath, right? I wanna make sure I’m not mixing him up with someone else.
Yes.
Majority of people are psychopaths bro
Wake up
Correct, but a sub-clinical psychopath.
Some killers may have narcissistic parents or guardians....
I found out ted Bundy ended up being bipolar with mixed episodes and it kind of freaked me out because I have that too and can be agressive depending on the delusions associated with mania and I 100% believe it was my adrenaline my brain kept me in fight or flight constantly but I'm in no way a charismatic psychopath if anything a revenge type and would just yell at people and say mean things instead of physically hurting people I lost it to a point were I would push people but they would never fight back i was put on meds and havent had that experience again but i was so terrified and am just as scared looking back because the line of what's right and wrong was so skewed in my mind because my brain chemistry was so out of whack at the time the meds brought me back to normal and I've never been that out of my mind delusions of grandeur made me a complete opposite person to my normal personality
I can relate...but I feel this is also something we can harbor and manipulate to use as our own link to “Norms”. We may seem different to everyone else... but we are far from it; We are just more in tuned.
I love you
Stay on your meds they help 😢
I wish the girl in the red would just show her real emotion and stop acting like a smiling robot.
Childhood abuse can lead to psychopathy
So interesting how environment can impact brain physiology!
That's sociopathy
The mere existence of psychopaths proves that idea of the judgement of the dead is absurd. They are the most vicious criminals, but they didn't chose to become this way. They can't change the fact that their brian isn't working properly just like you can't change that your brain probably is. So why would they deserve eternal punishment?
I believe if they actually have a condition that their brain is wrong God will take that into account
Rebecca Bell
Well this is just an example. In almost every case there's something to take into account: bad parents, bad environment, abuse, mental health...
What do you suggest be done to prevent them from harming others? How should they be punished if they have already committed a violent crime?
Legolas 793 You'd be very, very wrong. You really should read James Fallon's book. It's very enlightening.
Cassi because they didn't ask Jesus to be their savior. Even ted bundy got saved before he died whosoever will can be saved
Would’nt this be more reason to have something put in place to address the health of the brain like we do in cardiology. As of right now we having nothing in place to address brain health, kid hits his head parents throw a party. As a society we have to start addressing brain disease like we do heart disease.
No chance - too complex.
Who would have known that 14 days later a Bad shooting would happen
How do we turn that area back on?
u cant
🍄
Maybe one day neurofeedback could be a method to treat psychopathy.
You don't...
What is the likelihood that these brain traits would be passed on to their children?
There is some degree of heritability for psychopathy, especially for the callous-unemotional subtype of conduct disorder (in child psychopaths).
Politicans watching: Shakes Perfusely
Now you know who to blame when you kill someone.
the psychopaths?
Do you think one day we might get people to feel remorse when they wouldn’t otherwise by giving them drugs
There are some experiments testing oxytocin as a potential treatment.
We don't do much to rehabilitate people in prison. So of course they go out and reoffend! Our recidivism rate is incredibly high but it not impossible to help these people. Norway does
Nope, it IS impossible.
So doctor you're trying to say that serial killers are actually born with this brain ? So in the future we can scan everybody brains to see if they will be serial killers?
A lot of neuroscience evidence suggests that psychopathy is a neurodevelopmental disorder :)
Seria bom se tivesse a legenda.
Vá treinando o teu ingles! rsrs
@@thiagoaraujo4305 tome conta da tua vida, que da minha cuido eu rs. Já treino meu bem
Uai, apenas fiz um comentário sarcástico. Não soando ofensivo.
Tinha que ser negra!
@@samarasantanna3532 Aprende ingles porra
The Death penality is necessary not because You want to Harm killer but its to End the poor body which is harmful for other humans. Its like to shutdown that body because you can't afford to keep them in prison forever
I hope I'm not a psychopath
Most likely not.. because you question yourself
Well psychopath has no empathy toward ppl no rumours or shame so if u do then u definitely need to see psychiatric and do MRI.
Not everyone with personality disorders are bad. People with BPD are good people.
They never said people with personality disorders are bad
My MRI brain SCAN, my brain have so much electric going on in my brain, i think i am Genius.
This is sort of stupidity you swallow when you reject the idea of a human soul and free will.
And this is the sort of stupidity you swallow when you believe in fairy tales and unproven junk.
Grow up.
The world is pure physics.
_This is the sort of _*_sense_*_ __-stupidity-__ you _*_appreciate_*_ __-swallow-__ when you reject the _*_stupid_*_ idea of a human soul and free will._
There, fixed it for you.
Hmm 🤔 what’s normal? It’s subjective right? I’m very interested in brain science. It sucks when they put us ppl in a box.
I thought that they got a high and that's why they can't stop
Charisma doesn't make people dangerous
It is when it's used as a lure to manipulate others to do bad things for the benefit of a person bent on doing harm.
Why talking about mass murderers and then about psychopathy ? They are very different from serial killers and most of them are troubled but not especially clinical psychopaths..
To my awareness, there are few to no neuroimaging studies on mass murderers. That might be way... A lack of sample group.
Right
That's why they look at the brain when determining how mentally stable you are in the first place. Nothing new. BUT, gotta say. TRAVIS US HAWT.
Katarina Child in Time Oc 😀
killers are normal ppl that are evil.
The Asian ladies staring, blinking and smiling is making me very uncomfortable.
Okay, y'all i have to tell something. When i was 2 and half years old i took a knife and cut my finger just to see how blood looks and i wasn't crying or anything. And i let the droplets of blood fall all over the house. Is that normal?
i did that too as a kid so i couldn't tell you if thats "normal" , but if you are so worried than maybe go get professional help instead of asking strangers on the internet.
Is there any sociopathe in here ?
too many
too bad I killed
an spider 😖
me too
This is not true. There is hope. Part of their Brian is not dead. It’s just switched off so to speak. You can awaken it. But it’s a process. Instead of punishing these people they need to be given a chance and proper help.
Bullsh&t, the key parts of the brain are fundamentally different - there is actually no hope, they are just very good at faking "getting better".
Charisma? Just Like Fidel Castro!!!
James Fallon is a interesting psychopath because what he says is with emotion and no disconnect is what i can not understand unless he is just imitating how others would explain something
I understand needing to look good for the camera and viewers but why is the Asian woman smirking while the neuroscientist is discussing such serious matters?
real life joker
I wish I was a phychopath tbh sounds so cool sadly I'm partly sociopath not even full sociopath :/
You know everyone can become a psychopath.
And Why do you wanna become a full sociopath?
I'm a highly narcissistic sociopath with no empathy towards the human race.
War Monger me too
stop lying bitch
This is stupid anybody can be a killer
No! If he does not stop, We will take him by the naseyah (front of the head), a lying, sinful naseyah (front of the head)!  (Quran, 96:15-16
Wrong.
When one lies, the Brodmann area, the Wernicke area, the hypothalamus, the amygdala, the medial temporal cortex, the dorsilateral frontal and anerior cingulate cortex activate.
Also your garbage religion speaks of the forehead, without disambiguously referring to the brain, which it still messes up.
He just says the same shollow things in every interview casue he enjoys attantion and being in the position of authority, it's better then if he run around doing something worse but best dont take anything he says too seriously.
That simple? 10^11 neurons (well..), 2nm wide DNA strands, 6 gigabits of information (is that right? And again, well..)... And we can determine something as seemingly complex and nuanced in the social plane like psychopathic behavior via "lower blood flow in an area of the brain the size of my first iPhone"?
I mean, I guess ultimately everything is "anatomical" and this is more of an entertainment show than anything else.. but just pointing out that it's probably not as simple as presented in this video (specifically, that two side-by-side brains image..). But what do I know. Also, by "social plane" I mean: The product of interactions among billions of humans through millennia. Christ, the complexity seems unfathomable.
fMRIs are cool no doubt thou. Yet another thing I'm yet to really understand how it works. Too lazy too stupid.
And here I am watching CZcams videos. Is there an fMRI study for laziness, Doc? :)
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Wtf is wrong with the Asian lady? This is not a smiling matter. Is she ok??
what a fallacy! what the guy is basically saying is something similar to this: after years of research we know that most psychopaths have the 'Y' chromosome (being male) and because I also have the Y chromosome I must be one as well. oh no what a discovery I need to write a book about it. congrats someone gives the guy a medal in Logic & mathematics.