Structural and functional brain impairments in aggressive adolescents and violent adult offenders.

Mothers who smoke or drink during pregnancy double or triple the odds of their babies becoming violent offenders decades later, even after accounting for other social influences.

Poor nutrition during pregnancy almost triples the rate of antisocial personality disorder in adulthood

Children with poor nutrition at age 3 are more aggressive and antisocial in the teenage years

The idea that you could silence or activate neurons with light is a powerful one in combination with the tools that Boyden and Forest are working on together.

We had no idea what we were doing at first," Forest said. "We went from a bundle back to one tube. We got that to work after three years of trial and error.

Those years paid off. Boyden and Forest, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, developed a robotic system to record activity of a single neuron in the living brain using a tiny glass tube.

you have the ability to hear the electrical activity of that single cell

In the last six years, he's found something new to calm himself and concentrate: meditation.He meditates every day when he wakes up, incorporating a structure called "internal family systems," which involves looking at all the drives, thoughts and desires in your mind.

It takes him only a couple of minutes to get into a meditative state, which calms him and helps him analyze and address anxious thoughts.