Stories like Whitman’s are not uncommon: legal cases involving brain damage crop up increasingly often. As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems, and link them more easily to aberrant behavior.
A fantastic, comprehensive read on the study of neurolaw. There are so many avenues yet unexplored here - bioethically, neurologically, legally. I can’t wait to delve into this field.
(“The Brain On Trial”, via The Atlantic.)
