"The memoir of a neuroscientist whose research led him to a bizarre personal discovery"James Fallon had spent an entire career studying how our brains affect our behavior when his research suddenly turned personal. While studying brain scans of several family members, he discovered that one perfectl[...]
"The last scan in the pile was strikingly odd. In fact it looked exactly like the most abnormal of the scans I had just been writing about, suggesting that the poor individual it belonged to was a psychopath--or at least shared an uncomfortable amount of traits with one....When I found out who the s[...]
"Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy." -- M. E. Thomas, author of "Confessions of a Sociopath"
For his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he'd been raised in a loving [...]
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In May 1977 the French national railways announced they were taking the Orient- Express, the world's most fabled train, out of service. The public outcry which followed caught the attention of Jim Sherwood. The last remaining four carriages, which had featured in the film Murd er on the Ori ent-Expr[...]