Brian Dugan raped and murdered three people, two of them children. When he came up for sentencing in 2009, neuroscience had reached the point where brain factors could make a difference between a life ...

In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail and asylums. W.B. was “a quiet and useful man,” the doctor wrote in The ...