I heard a lot of the talking people on TV say that sociopaths are often people that are raised in terrible conditions such as constant physical and/or mental abuse, deprivation of any love, severe and constant stress such as years of war, etc., so that they just withdraw from acknowledging their own feelings and that develops into an apathy toward other people and usually animals, too. They cannot feel empathy because they have "turned off" their natural caring responses and after a time, are almost unable to ever regain them, even with therapy. None of that seems to fit Casey Anthony so it seems it must be the brain problem Nancy speaks of.
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