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Article: Strange mind of a killer.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: Christy Gutowski cgutowski@dailyherald.com
His lifeAEs work is studying the brains of high-security prisoners, but neuroscientist Kent Kiehl said heAEs rarely come across a subject like Brian Dugan in his quest to unlock answers to the criminal mind.
Kiehl testified Thursday that Dugan scored a 37 out of 40, placing him in the top 99.5 percentile, when the murdererAEs brain was scanned in psychopathy tests. The average inmateAEs score is 25; a normal civilian rates a 4.
Kiehl, a vanguard researcher in brain imaging technology, said psychopaths such as Dugan share a defect or inactivity in an area of that organ that processes emotion, ...