Minds, Brains, and the Law

Brain Science and the Law

The DANA Foundation recently posted a new piece entitled "Brain Science and the Law."

Crime Fighting and Mind Reading in TIME

TIME has a recent piece entitled "Fighting Crime by Reading Minds"--which discusses some interesting recent work in neuroscience and its potential for detecting lies, reading minds, and the like.  It's worth the read even if I don't share Rosenfeld's desire to simply "get past all these theoretical arguments."  On my view, side-stepping legitimate moral and political issues in the name of "simply doing science" is myopic given the historical abuses of science.  This is not to say that scientists need to be beholden to these concerns, but they should nevertheless take them seriously lest we repeat some of the avoidable mistakes of the past.

Around the Web

Here is the latest installment:

1. NPR's Talk of the Nation interviewed LANP's Josh Greene, Stephen Morse, and Kent Kiehl about the rise of neurolaw.
2. Our own Martha Farah has a new volume out:  Neuroethics (MIT Press)
3. SBM Blog has a piece on neuroscience and juvenile justice jurisprudence.
4. Science has a new piece on the unconscious will.
5. Neurophilosophy has a piece on using nanotechnology for the purposes of behavioral control.
6. SCOPE has a video interview with LANP's Hank Greely on brain science and the law.
7. The Neuroethics Society has an upcoming meeting in San Diego in November.

That's it for now.  As always, happy reading!

Around the Web

Here is the latest installment:

1. "Neuroscience, Law, and Violence" over at Neurological Correlates
2. "Inside a Psychopath's Brain" over at NPR (featuring our own Kent Kiehl).
3. "Mind, Brain, and Morality" over at NPR.
4. "Lie Detection and Neurolaw" over at Neurokuz.
5. "Neuroscience and Prediction" over at Science Daily.
6. "50 Best Blogs for Neurology Students" over at Radiology Technicians Blog.
7. "Brain Structure Corresponds to Personality" over at Machines Like Us.
8. "Touch, Social Judgment, and Embodied Cognition" over at Neurophilosophy.

As always, happy reading!

Around the Web

I apologize for the sparse posting as of late, but I recently made a cross-country move.  Hopefully, now that I am settled in, I can get back to posting more regularly.  That being said, here is the latest installment of Around the Web:

1. Guardian has a piece on neuroenhancement, smart drugs, and students.
2. Scientific American has a wonderful piece by John Horgan about the role the Penatgon/DoD plays in funding neuroscience.
3. Adam Kolber has a great post over at the Neuroethics and Law Blog about what he call's "fractional parents."  See here for a recent follow-up post.
4. Neuroethics at the Core has a nice review of the fascinating research being done by Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe on moral judgments. See here for their most recent paper.
5. Science Daily has a nice piece on bionic eyes and another on the neural relationship between empathy and violence.
6. New Scientist has a piece on chimp intuitions/judgments about fairness.
7. Neuronarrative has three interesting posts: (a) a post about photographs and "false" memory, (b) another about testosterone and the power of belief, and (c) one about what makes us human.

 As always, happy reading!

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."

As always, happy viewing!

Around the Web

Here is the latest installment of Around the Web...

Neuroethics has recently published the following interesting articles:

1. "The BCN Challenge to Compatibilist Free Will and Personal Responsibility" (Sie and Wuters)
2. "Does Neuroscience Undermine Deontological Theory?" (Dean)
3. "Why ‘Willusionism’ Leads to ‘Bad Results’" (Nahmias)
4. "Response to ‘Free Will as Advanced Action Control for Human Social Life and Culture’"(Holton)
5. "Are Disorders Sufficient for Reduced Responsibility?" (Turner)

Novel Tech Ethics recently posted several podcasts about neuroethics.

The Stanford Law School Blog has a recent post entitled "Neuroscience and Sentencing."

Neuroethics at the Core has the following three posts:

1. "Major step forward in developing ‘real’ pharmacological cognitive enhancers"
2. "A Conversation on the Neuroethics of War"
3. "Neuroethics & the trolley problem"

Youtube has a video lecture by Evan Thompson on Neuroscience and Free Will.

The Jury Room has a post entitled “Aggression genes”, Asperger’s and Absolution (for criminal acts)."

SEED has a summary of a recent talk by our own Michael Gazzaniga on neurolaw.

The Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences Blog has a post about neuro-lie detection.

BBC has a post entiteld "What's My Brain's Motivation?"

Around the Web

Here is the latest installment of Around the Web.  Once again, I have picked a few of the posts or articles I found to be particularly intriguing or illuminating.  Hopefully, they peak your curiosity as well:

1. The Situationist has a great post on The Situation of Violence.
2. The Neuroethics and Law Blog has a helpful post about some new abstracting services on SSRN.
3. New Scientist has a piece about brain imaging and mind reading.
4. Nature News has a piece about "total recall."
5. Wired has an article about recent work on how the brain processes language.
6. Neurological Correlates has a post on how good psychopaths are at selected victims and getting away with murder.
7. Machines Like Us has a post about the purported incoherence of free will.

As always, happy reading!

Around the Web

I have come across tons of interesting interviews, articles, and blog posts as of late.  So here are some of the ones that I found to be the most illuminating or intriguing:

1. The Stanford Report has a piece entitled "The Court Will Call Its Next Witness to the Stand:  The Brain."
2. The DANA Foundation Blog has a post about a new Apple i-Phone Application called 3-D Brain.
3. Cognitive Daily has a post about Martin Reuter's recent work on the genetic and neural correlates of anger and DARRP-32.
4. Neurophilosophy has a post about the so-called "virtual body illusion."
5. The Dana Centre has a video posted of a conference back in 2005 entitled "Neuroethics:  The Ethics of Brain Research."
6. Mail Online has a piece about the prospect of psychic mind-reading computers.
7. Straight.com has a piece on neuroethics which contains an interview with our own Judy Illes.
8. The Los Angeles Times ran a brief piece on the possibility that criminal behavior is "hard-wired in the brain."

As always, happy reading!

Around the Web

In order to make up for the dearth of posting in the past few weeks, we are bringing you an expanded edition of Around the Web--with over a dozen links to interesting and newsworthy posts and pages! 

1. WIRED has a piece entitled "Forgotten Memories Are Still in Your Brain."
2. Interior Traces is a curious and fascinating "six-part radio drama, video, performance, and debate"!
3. Brain Stimulant has a recent piece on "Transformative Brain Projects."
4. Research Digest Blog has a post entitled "Resting State Brain Networks Are Stable."
5. IEEE Spectrum has a post entitled "The Brain Machine Interface, Unplugged."
6. New Scientist has two interesting articles: (a) "Free Flying Cyborg Insects," and (b) "My Little Zebra: The Secrets of Domestication."
7. Neurological Correlates has a piece entitled "Manic Monday: Grouchy Before Coffee?"
8. Penn's recently formed Center for Neuroscience & Society has announced an exciting upcoming conference on Clinical Neuroscience and Society.
9. Paul Wolpe has a piece in Forbes entitled "Is My Mind Mine?"
10. Practical Ethics has an post on "The Ethics of Mind-Reading."
11. Adam Kolber has posted an interesting new paper entitled "The Experiential Future of Law."
12. Over at Experimental Philosophy, there are two recent posts about upcoming events that some of you might find of interest: (a) Experiments in the Humanities, and (b) Experiment Boot Camp.  If you live in the NY/NJ area, you should check them out!
13. David Brooks has an interesting op-ed in the NY Times about social cognitive neuroscience entitled "The Young and the Neuro."

OK, that's it for now.  As always, happy reading!