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Ever hear of Reddit's subreddit Unresolved Mysteries ?

What unresolved mystery intrigues you the most?

Patricia,

In a Sept.2004, U.S Finance Newswire interview with Ken and Daria Dolan, you mentioned that you were interested in neuroscience in order to explore the innner workings of the human brain through genetics.

You described forensic science with the metaphor of a "tricked out garbage truck". From what I understood from the interview, forensic science in other words, cleans up after a big mess. Is this still the case today?

Are you familiar with any major neuroscience disease research projects that involve genetics? I just found out about Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NY and the Computational Neuroscience Research Group from Canada to understand the brain with large scale models. All of this mainly with single neuron simulation via a supercomputing network of institutions.

In your research and past experience, did you ever encounter any cases with CTE? Chronic traumatic encephalopathy looks like something important to look at from a forensic point of view because of it's ability to alter the behavior in people to such extremes of ending the life of the person with this progressive disease or of others not suffering from it.

This is is excerpt is from JoshuaKevinPerry's timeline of the Joe Rogan Experience Oct 2014 podcast with biomedical doctor and expert on nutritional health, Dr. Rhonda Patrick. "Dave Duerson, Junior Seau shot themselves in the heart so their brain could be studied. Chris Benoit hanged himself after murdering his family, was subsequently found to have CTE. CTE is only found by studying deceased brains, and the existence of CTE and concussions causing the condition was covered up and dismissed by the NFL and its "experts" until 2010."

Side Fact- Director and actor, Will Smith, is currently in the process of filming Game Brain where he plays the forensic neuropathologist who finds CTE in a football player, helping people understand how this disease affects people.

What do you think about brain preservation for living at a later time or maybe for forensic work in the future? If the technology advanced and current issues addressed, will you take the opportunity to preserve yourself via cryopreservation?

After being imprisoned, the evaluations by psychologist Dr. Al Carlisle,Ph.D, shed some light on serial killer Ted Bundy's behavior. Four months ago, the Dr. made an IAmA through Reddit. He suggests a solution that could reduce the amount of "random spree killers"in a society.

Kent Kiehl, a neuroscientist working at the Mind Institute of NM, found after scanning, "3,000 violent offenders, including 500 psychopaths" After studying these MRI images, his research led to the discovery, "that psychopaths have 5 to 10 percent reduced gray matter density in and around the limbic regions a network deep in the brain that's important for emotional processing. We’ve also found — and a group in Germany has published a similar finding — that the tissue that connects the limbic system to the frontal lobes is disrupted

This type of report is one of the many that connect deviant behavior to brain dysfunction. Claudia Pinto of the Charlotteville Daily Progress raises the issue of brain imaging used as, "evidence for the defense" with the philosophical question, "How free is free will?"