Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Las Vegas gunman had unusually high burden of corpora amylacea, but no other significant findings, at autopsy

The New York Times reports that brain autopsy results on Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock show that he "had not had a stroke, brain tumor or a number of other neurological disorders that might have helped explain his actions". 

Paddock, 64-years-old, did have an unusually high burden of corpora amylacea, the significance of which is not known.

In the article, Stanford neuropathologist Hannes Vogel commented on the corpora amylacea as follows: “Most people would have them at that age, but not in that profusion,” Dr. Vogel said. “It’s a striking exaggeration of an age-related finding.”

I put up a post a few months ago about Dr. Vogel receiving the brain for examination.

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