Around the Web

Here is the latest installment of Around the Web:

1. Machines Like Us has three interesting recent posts on (a) mapping the brain, (b) using brain imaging to detect PTSD, and (c) neuroscience in the courtroom.
2. The American Psychiatric Association has information on-line concerning the forthcoming DSM-5.
3. U Michigan's Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain will soon be hosting The Summer Institute for Cultural Neuroscience.
4. The Neurocritic has a post about casinos' suspect use of  neuroscientific research.
5. Neuroethics at the Core has an interesting post entitled "You are not your Brain Scan."
6. Science Bloggers has a nice recap of this weekend's panel at the AAAS entitled "The Brain on Trial."

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[The Law and Medicine Blog]

just to let you know that we have been recently posting on free will and the law. This includes a look at the neuroscience of free will, but explains some of the issues in defining the mens rea of a crime in terms of intentionality; what happens if defendants lack a "free won't"?

Our blog: http://www.lawandmedicine.wordpress.com

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