Dr. Vogel said he was briefed on Wednesday about the condition of the gunman’s brain, including damage caused by an apparently self-inflicted bullet wound to his head. “The correlation of what might be structurally there to behavior is very difficult,” Dr. Leestma said. Dr. Leestma detected a possible abnormality in the man’s hippocampus, a structure involved in memory and the brain’s emotional pathways. The supposed brain tumor “was a very handy excuse for the fact that he went out and shot people,” Dr. Vogel said. “I think everybody is pretty doubtful that we’re going to come up with something,” Dr. Vogel said.

Source: New York Times October 26, 2017 15:36 UTC