The Psychopath Hidden Inside Us
Written by Yunho Lee/Illustrated by Jinsook Park/Pacific Dodo
Renowned neuroscientist James Fallon was conducting research to find brain patterns predisposed to antisocial personality disorder. While scanning the brain images of people with antisocial personality disorder, he found pathological images with low activity in the temporal and frontal lobes, which are related to 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 consciously did what he believed was right and became more considerate of others, turning into a prosocial person. The book tells how to greet psychopaths with the right gaze so that they can integrate well into society. page 340. 22,000 won.
like animals
Written by Stephen Astad / Translated by Kim Seong-hoon / willbook
Elephants, which live about 70 years, do not get as many cancers as humans. Naked mole rats live for more than 30 years in oxygen-poor soil, but aging hardly progresses until the end of their lifespan. A 500-year-old Arctica clam resists and overcomes attempts to induce ‘protein misfolding’, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The author goes one step further from research conducted only with traditional laboratory animals such as mice and fruit flies and says that we must get clues to overcome the limits of human lifespan extension from animals in nature who have lived healthy for a long time against the flow of time. A book that tells you how to age healthily like animals that fly freely in the sky even after fifty and swim in the sea for more than a hundred years. page 396. 19,800 won.
◆I will live as an elegant idiot
Written by Minbaram / Supervised by Shin Jae-ho / Ruark
The author diagnosed with ADHD is sensitive to noise. He is hypersensitive to the noise of motorcycle exhaust, to the point of refraining from going out. The author says that the sound seemed to break through the flesh and penetrate the body. ‘I will live as an elegant idiot’ is a book that records the ‘pain’ of ADHD people struggling with symptoms and struggling to lead a ‘normal life’. ADHD is a cruel disease because it looks fine. Due to the stereotype that it is a conspicuously distracting disease, quiet ADHD people stay in the blind spot of diagnosis for a long time and live by considering themselves ‘a little different from others’. The author was one of them. The artist affirms her own image, which is close to ugliness, and pursues ‘inner elegance’ that sees the pain of others through it without being trapped in her own pain. Living with inconvenience, that harsh and kind story. page 332. 17,500 won.