Is sociopath genetic?

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Yes, that's part of it. But there are other factors. Some of these are not yet known, but it is known that starting in infancy, some babies begin to develop neurologically in a very abnormal manner. First off, whereas most people have specific areas in one or the other hemisphere of the brain that handle various tasks, the sociopath has them scattered randomly in both hemispheres, so that memory and information are broken into small pieces; this is why their speech is often wildly contradictory. And even worse, the areas of the cerebral cortex that normally handle emotional information do not work at all, for reasons unknown, so they never develop at all, remaining as they were in infancy. Other areas process this information but in such a different way that it is incomprehensible to people who are not sociopaths, and vice-versa. The actual structure of the brain can be lopsided. Overall, it is believed that the condition is congenital but that extremely intensive therapy of an entirely different sort than usual and starting in childhood can at least keep the sociopath from causing massive damage to other people, and possibly even alleviate some of his/her own misery.

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