A very interesting recent article highlights innovative research in law and neuroscience at Stanford Law School. In The court will now call its expert witness: the brain, Stanford Report, Nov. 19, 2009, Ingfei Chen surveys recent neuroscience-related research and other activities of the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, the Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society, the Law & Neuroscience Project, and the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
In the article, Stanford neuroscience and law experts discuss a range of issues including:
- Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature (BEOS);
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) lie detection technology;
- the relationship of neuroscience to “criminal responsibility and prediction and treatment of criminal behavior”;
- “the impacts of neuroscience on legal decision making”;
- neuroscientific evidence in murder cases, to exonerate defendants or mitigate punishment;
- uses of neuroscience technology in parole and other areas of criminal justice administration; and
- the potential for neuroscience tools to improve outcomes in drug-related cases.
HT @TheJuryExpert.
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