Project members Stephen Morse, Josh Greene, and Kent Kiehl addressed the question, Can Genes and Brain Abnormalities Create Killers? on NPR's Talk of the Nation, hosted by Neal Conan. Link to Transcript and Audio».
Project member Josh Greene was interviewed in a recent story on NPR about a recent PNAS article entitled Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments. The NPR story is available at the following link. Link to Story». Discovery News provides a synopsis of the article. Link to Article».
Project members Owen Jones, Jeffrey Schall, and Rene Marois (together with Vanderbilt University graduate student Joshua Buckholtz) recently published Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed in the Stanford Technology Law Review. Link to Article».
Project Director Michael Gazzaniga quoted in short USA Today article entitled Who killed John Lennon? Science looks at brain and the law. Link to Article».
Project member Kent Kiehl recently testified in the sentencing trial of admitted murderer Brian Dugan. Kiehl relied on imaging data in his expert testimony and this effort is profiled in Miller-McCune, A Mind of Crime: How brain-scanning technology is redefining criminal culpability.Link to Article».
Fred Schauer, a Governor of the Law and Neuroscience Project, published Neuroscience, Lie Detection, and the Law in Trends in Cognitive Neurosciences. Link to Abstract».