“The Brain on Trial”
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/1/ Highlights below, but it’s a short read and I very much recommend it. “Patients with frontotemporal dementia commonly end up in courtrooms, where their lawyers, doctors, and embarrassed adult children must explain to the judge that the violation was not the perpetrator’s fault, exactly: much of the brain has degenerated, and medicine offers [...]