E.A. Spitzka's Studies of Exceptional and Deviant Brains (2024)

I love that he could bring himself to conclude he’d spent years on a dead end.

> Despite his extensive research, Spitzka found little conclusive evidence to explain the complexities of criminality or genius. He grew skeptical of the prevailing belief that human behavior could be easily linked to the structure and morphology of the brain, and his work ultimately questioned this reductionist view.