01/12/2011

Neurolaw and the Popular Press

Both Scientific American and USA Today recently had neurolaw-related pieces.  The first is an article in SA about neuroevidence that is entitled, "To Tell the Truth:  Brain Scans are not Ready for the Courtroom." The second is a piece in USA Today about a recent National Geographic show about the correlation between certain alleles of the MAOA gene and violence behavior (here is a clip from the show).

Jan 12, 2011 4:42:00 PM | Popular Press

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