What if a jury could decide a man's guilt through mind reading? What if reading a defendant's memory could betray their guilt? And what constitutes 'intent' to commit murder?
Can Brain Scans Read Your Mind? In Some Cases, The Answer Is 'Yes' Can neuroscience read people's minds? Some researchers, and some new businesses, are banking on a brain imaging technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal hidden thoughts, such as lies, truths or deep desires.
Brain Damage, Pedophilia, and the Law An intriguing and tragic story of brain damage is reported in the latest issue of Neurocase: Klüver-Bucy syndrome, hypersexuality, and the law.The authors are Devinsky, Sacks, and Devinsky - Sacks being neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks. Their anonymous patient, a 51 year old married American man, is currently serving a jail sentence for downloading child pornography. But he's not your aver
Uncertainty Is Your Friend, Part III: Emotions Are All of the Above All available evidence suggests that the brain has enormous flexibility to do a lot of different things at one time. Mental focus is hard because it forces the brain to concentrate its resources, something it is naturally inclined to do only with the prospect of reward or in the face of threat.We lose sight of brain flexibility in emotions in part because when we express an emotion, it seems like
Early visual areas of the brain may have a role in memory The traditional view is that perceptual information is processed in early sensory regions of the brain, such as primary visual cortex, before being passed on to memory systems subserved by "high-order" brain areas, such as the prefrontal and inferotemporal cortices. Aside from being an oversimplification, a further problem with this account is that the the high-order brain regions don't have the
Doctors Test Targets For Deep Brain Stimulation In Parkinson Surgery Doctors have compared the two current target areas of deep brain stimulation surgery, or DBS. Investigators found that DBS in either brain target effectively treated motor symptoms such as tremors, stiffness and slowness. However, DBS also produced unique effects depending on the target location, especially in patients' moods and mental sharpness.
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