My daughter, who is a neuroscience major, pointed out
this article in yesterday's
New York Times Magazine. It discusses how the ability to perform PET scans, MRIs and other tests on the brain may affect the law. If we can see that a defendant's brain is abnormal, what happens to the legal system's concept of responsibility for criminal acts? The article was written by
Jeffrey Rosen, who is on the faculty of the
George Washington University Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal procedure.
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