Adam kindly asked me to be a guest on his blog, so in the next month I’ll be writing about the relationship between having a diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder and being autonomous. I believe this is ...

The Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is holding a conference on October 4, 2013 examinging evolving technologies available to demonstrate mental ...

The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ...

The last thirty years have seen an explosion of neuroscience research on how the mind functions. This research paints a revised image of what constitutes human nature and behavior and how the criminal ...

The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of theJohns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethicsand the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ...

Hey N&LB Readers, This week I'm blogging about whether neuroscience can escape our own preconceived notions about an issue. Noted blogger Neuroskeptic notes that society is thinking and talking about ...

Amherst College's Austin Sarat, Martha Umphrey, John Servos, Jan Dizard, Anthony Bishop, Lawrence Douglas, and Steve George hosted a wonderful "'NeuroLaw': What Neuroscience Offers to Law" roundtable ...

The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was a master anatomist as well as an artistic genius. He dissected cadavers numerous times and developed a profound understanding of human anatomy. From 1508 to ...

Empathy lies at the core of the capital trial. If jurors come to see the defendant as “different,” “other,” or not “fully human,” they are more likely to determine that the defendant “deserves” the ...