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...Well . . . yeah," said Shaw...
...Parwatikar admitted that he had misdiagnosed Shaw. He blamed the prison authorities for not providing him with all Bobby's records. He told TIME, "Schizophrenics don't generally like to admit to some of the things going on underneath. I asked him if he was having command hallucinations, and he denied it." He added, "I missed the diagnosis . . . given what...
True schizophrenia patients often hide their symptoms and insist that nothing unusual is happening. It takes skill to identify some kinds of insanity. Last December, Shaw's pro bono lawyer Sean O'Brien brought in Georgetown neurologist Jonathan Pincus to interview Bobby...
...said Shaw...
Pincus is so convinced that Bobby was abused as a child that he has said so in testimony. When he did, Ruby Shaw got up and left the courtroom. She later told him, "I know you had to say all that, but I just couldn't stand reliving those terrible times." Says Pincus: "I believe he was abused -- beaten and burned." As for brain damage, tests administered in 1990 indicate that Shaw's right parietal lobe is damaged. That is the area of the brain that controls how we interpret the behavior of others. Shaw's frontal lobes are also...