New research reveals brain differences in youth who commit homicide

A new study conducted by The Mind Research Network (MRN)  in Albuquerque found that youth 12 to 18 who commit homicide have very different brains than other serious juvenile offenders who have not committed a homicide. The findings of the study, Abnormal Brain Structure in Youth Who Commit Homicide , are published in the peer-review journal NeuroImage: Clinical. MRN researchers applied sophisticated machine-learning techniques to MRI brain scans of adolescent offenders and were able to tell with