[주말은 책과 함께] Psychopaths hidden inside us

The hidden psychopath inside us

Written by Yunho Lee/Illustrated by Jinsook Park/Pacific Dodo

Renowned neuroscientist James Fallon was conducting research to find brain patterns predisposing to antisocial personality disorder. When scanning the brain images of people with antisocial personality disorder, he found pathological images with low activity in the temporal and frontal lobes, which correlate with empathy, morality and self-control. The main character of the video was James Fallon himself. An investigation into his immediate family revealed that seven of them were the killers. To overcome his antisocial tendencies, Fallon knowingly did what he thought was right and became more respectful of others, turning into a prosocial person. The book tells how to greet psychopaths with the right look so that they can integrate well into society. page 340. 22,000 won.

like animals

Written by Stephen Astad / Translated by Sunghoon Kim / willbook

Elephants, who live about 70 years, don’t have as many tumors as humans. Naked mole rats live for more than 30 years in oxygen-poor soils, but aging is unlikely to progress to the end of their lives. A 500-year-old Arctica clam resists and outlasts attempts to induce “protein misfolding,” a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The author goes one step further than research done only with traditional laboratory animals like mice and fruit flies and says we need to get clues to push the limits of human lifespan extension from animals in the wild that have lived in good health for a long time against the tide. of time. A book that tells how to grow old in health like animals that fly free in the sky even after fifty years and have been swimming in the sea for more than a hundred years. page 396. 19,800 won.

◆ I will live like an elegant idiot

Written by Minbaram / Supervised by Shin Jae-ho / Ruark

The author diagnosed with ADHD is sensitive to noise. She is hypersensitive to the noise of the motorbike’s exhaust, to the point of refraining from going out. The author says the sound seemed to break through the flesh and penetrate the body. “I Will Live Like an Elegant Idiot” is a book that records the “pain” of people with ADHD grappling with symptoms and struggling to lead a “normal life.” ADHD is a cruel disease because it looks okay. Because of the stereotype that ADHD is an overtly distracting disease, quiet people with ADHD remain in the blind spot of the diagnosis for a long time and live considering themselves “a little different from the others”. The author was one of them. The artist affirms her own image, which is close to ugliness, and pursues the ‘inner elegance’ that sees through herself the pain of others without being trapped in her own pain. Living with hardships, that hard and kind story. page 332. 17,500 won.