The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

✍ Scribed by Davis, Kevin

• Book ID: 109900299
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 204 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781594206337

✦ Synopsis

Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman's husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife after an argument, then dropping her body out of their apartment window to make it look like a suicide. The 65-year-old Weinstein, a quiet, unassuming retired advertising executive, had no criminal record, no history of violent behavior—not even a short temper. How, then, to explain this horrific act?

Journalist Kevin Davis uses the perplexing story of the Weinstein murder to present a riveting, deeply researched exploration of the intersection of neuroscience and criminal justice. Shortly after Weinstein was arrested, an MRI revealed a cyst the size of an orange on his brain's frontal lobe, the part of the...