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Type of evidence by ethnicity of offender.
| Aborig | Asia | Black | MESA | Mixed | Unknown | Totala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FASD | 47 | 1 | 25 | 73 | |||
| TBI | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 37 | ||
| Neuropsych. tests | 18 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 44 | ||
| CT scan | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Neuro disease | 7 | 7 | |||||
| EEG | 2 | 2 | |||||
| MRI | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Dementia | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Epilepsy | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Birth trauma | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Neurological tests | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Parasomnia | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Tumor | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total # cases | 51 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 76 |
aNote that multiple forms of neuroscientific evidence may have been adduced in a given case, and this column thus exceeds 133 (the number of cases in the dataset).
