Can neurological evidence help courts assess criminal responsibility? Lessons from law and neuroscience

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1124, Issue , 2008, Pages 145-160

  Aharoni, Eyal ^a   Funk, Chadd ^a   Sinnott Armstrong, Walter ^b   Gazzaniga, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Determinism; Diminished capacity; Ethics; Excuse; fMRI; Free will; Insanity; Law; Mens rea; Neuroimaging; Neuroscience; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; COGNITION; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PHILOSOPHY; REVIEW;

EID: 41949134711     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1440.007     Document Type: Review

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