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From the Ted Talk by Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer

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So this is how it's passed from mhoter to son. And it has to do with too much brain serotonin during dvmlnpoeeet, which is kind of interesting because sonertoin is speopsud to make you calm and relaxed. But if you have this gene, in utero your brain is bathed in this, so your whole brain becomes iissteinvne to serotonin, so it doesn't work later on in life.

And I'd given this one talk in Israel, just this past year. And it does have some consequences. Theoretically what this means is that in order to exprses this gene, in a violent way, very early on, before puberty, you have to be involved in something that is really traumatic — not a little stress, not being spanked or something, but really seeing violence, or being involved in it, in 3D. Right? That's how the mirror neuron system works.

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So this is how it's passed from ______ to son. And it has to do with too much brain serotonin during ___________, which is kind of interesting because _________ is ________ to make you calm and relaxed. But if you have this gene, in utero your brain is bathed in this, so your whole brain becomes ___________ to serotonin, so it doesn't work later on in life.

And I'd given this one talk in Israel, just this past year. And it does have some consequences. Theoretically what this means is that in order to _______ this gene, in a violent way, very early on, before puberty, you have to be involved in something that is really traumatic — not a little stress, not being spanked or something, but really seeing violence, or being involved in it, in 3D. Right? That's how the mirror neuron system works.

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  1. mother
  2. development
  3. express
  4. supposed
  5. serotonin
  6. insensitive

Original Text


So this is how it's passed from mother to son. And it has to do with too much brain serotonin during development, which is kind of interesting because serotonin is supposed to make you calm and relaxed. But if you have this gene, in utero your brain is bathed in this, so your whole brain becomes insensitive to serotonin, so it doesn't work later on in life.

And I'd given this one talk in Israel, just this past year. And it does have some consequences. Theoretically what this means is that in order to express this gene, in a violent way, very early on, before puberty, you have to be involved in something that is really traumatic — not a little stress, not being spanked or something, but really seeing violence, or being involved in it, in 3D. Right? That's how the mirror neuron system works.

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Important Words


  1. bathed
  2. brain
  3. calm
  4. consequences
  5. development
  6. early
  7. express
  8. gene
  9. insensitive
  10. interesting
  11. involved
  12. israel
  13. kind
  14. life
  15. means
  16. mirror
  17. mother
  18. neuron
  19. order
  20. passed
  21. puberty
  22. relaxed
  23. serotonin
  24. son
  25. spanked
  26. stress
  27. supposed
  28. system
  29. talk
  30. theoretically
  31. traumatic
  32. utero
  33. violence
  34. violent
  35. work
  36. works
  37. year