Neurolaw Archives

This will serve as my official archive of neurolaw related journal articles, continuously updated.

Abe, Nobuhito, Toshikatsu Fujii, Kazumi Hirayama, Atsushi Takeda, Yoshiyuki Hosokai, Toshiyuki Ishioka, Yoshiyuki Nishio, et al. “Do Parkinsonian Patients Have Trouble Telling Lies? The Neurobiological Basis of Deceptive Behaviour.” Brain 132, no. 5 (May 1, 2009): 1386–1395.

Abe, Nobuhito, Jiro Okuda, Maki Suzuki, Hiroshi Sasaki, Tetsuya Matsuda, Etsuro Mori, Minoru Tsukada, and Toshikatsu Fujii. “Neural Correlates of True Memory, False Memory, and Deception.” Cerebral Cortex 18, no. 12 (December 1, 2008): 2811–2819.

Abe, Nobuhito, Maki Suzuki, Takashi Tsukiura, Etsuro Mori, Keiichiro Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Itoh, and Toshikatsu Fujii. “Dissociable Roles of Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortices in Deception.” Cerebral Cortex 16, no. 2 (February 1, 2006): 192–199.

Aggarwal, Neil K. “Neuroimaging, Culture, and Forensic Psychiatry.” The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 37, no. 2 (2009): 239–244.

Annas, George J. “Foreword: Imagining a New Era of Neuroimaging, Neuroethics, and Neurolaw.” American Journal of Law & Medicine 33, no. 2–3 (2007): 163–170.

Balas, Benjamin J, Charles A Nelson, Alissa Westerlund, Vanessa Vogel-Farley, Tracy Riggins, and Dana Kuefner. “Personal Familiarity Influences the Processing of Upright and Inverted Faces in Infants.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4 (2010): 1.

Bard, Jennifer S. “‘Oh Yes, I Remember It Well’: Why the Inherent Unreliability of Technology Which Purports to Retrieve Human Memories Makes It Inappropriate for Forensice Use.” SSRN Electronic Journal (2011). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1813425.

Baskin, Joseph H, Judith G Edersheim, and Bruce H Price. “Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Neuroimaging in the Courtroom.” American Journal of Law & Medicine 33, no. 2–3 (2007): 239–269.

Benforado, Adam, and Jon Hanson. “The Great Attributional Divide: How Divergent Views of Human Behavior Are Shaping Legal Policy” (March 18, 2008). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1106684.

Burgoon, J. K. “The Dynamic Nature of Deceptive Verbal Communication.” Journal of Language and Social Psychology 25, no. 1 (March 1, 2006): 76–96.

Canli, Turhan, and Zenab Amin. “Neuroimaging of Emotion and Personality: Scientific Evidence and Ethical Considerations.” Brain and Cognition 50, no. 3 (December 2002): 414–431.

Christ, Shawn E, David C Van Essen, Jason M Watson, Lindsay E Brubaker, and Kathleen B McDermott. “The Contributions of Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Control to Deception: Evidence from Activation Likelihood Estimate Meta-Analyses.” Cerebral Cortex 19, no. 7 (July 1, 2009): 1557–1566.

Conti, Fiorenzo, and Gilberto Corbellini. “Italian Neuroscientists Are Ready to Start the Debate.” Nature 451, no. 7179 (February 7, 2008): 627.

Deslauriers, C, E Bell, N Palmour, B Pike, J Doyon, and E Racine. “Perspectives of Canadian Researchers on Ethics Review of Neuroimaging Research.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: JERHRE 5, no. 1 (March 2010): 49–66.

Desmond, John E, and S H Annabel Chen. “Ethical Issues in the Clinical Application of fMRI: Factors Affecting the Validity and Interpretation of Activations.” Brain and Cognition 50, no. 3 (December 2002): 482–497.

Dossey, Larry. “Neurolaw or Frankenlaw? The Thought Police Have Arrived.” EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 6, no. 5 (September 2010): 275–286.

Dresser, Rebecca. “Brain Imaging and Courtroom Deception” (February 19, 2011). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1763304.

Druss, Benjamin G, and Thomas H Bornemann. “Improving Health and Health Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: The Window for US Federal Policy Change.” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 303, no. 19 (May 19, 2010): 1972–1973.

Erickson, Steven. “Blaming the Brain” (September 12, 2009). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1472245.

Farah, Martha J, and Paul Root Wolpe. “Monitoring and Manipulating Brain Function: New Neuroscience Technologies and Their Ethical Implications.” The Hastings Center Report 34, no. 3 (June 2004): 35–45.

Farisco, M., and C. Petrini. “The Impact of Neuroscience and Genetics on the Law: A Recent Italian Case.” Neuroethics (n.d.): 1–3.

Fins, Joseph J, Nicholas D Schiff, and Kathleen M Foley. “Late Recovery from the Minimally Conscious State: Ethical and Policy Implications.” Neurology 68, no. 4 (January 23, 2007): 304–307.

Fullam, Rachael S, Shane McKie, and Mairead C Dolan. “Psychopathic Traits and Deception: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.” The British Journal of Psychiatry 194, no. 3 (March 1, 2009): 229–235.

Gerard, Eric K. “Waiting in the Wings - The Admissibility of Neuroimagery for Lie Detection.” Developments in Mental Health Law 27 (2008): 1.

Giordano, James. “Unpacking Neuroscience and Neurotechnology - Instructions Not Included: Neuroethics Required.” Neuroethics (n.d.): 1–4.

Granacher, Robert P, Jr. “Commentary: Applications of Functional Neuroimaging to Civil Litigation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.” The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 36, no. 3 (2008): 323–328.

Greely, Henry T, and Judy Illes. “Neuroscience-based Lie Detection: The Urgent Need for Regulation.” American Journal of Law & Medicine 33, no. 2–3 (2007): 377–431.

Greene, Joshua D, and Joseph M Paxton. “Patterns of Neural Activity Associated with Honest and Dishonest Moral Decisions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, no. 30 (July 28, 2009): 12506–12511.

Illes, Judy, Matthew P. Kirschen, Emmeline Edwards, L R. Stanford, Peter Bandettini, Mildred K. Cho, Paul J. Ford, et al. “Incidental Findings in Brain Imaging Research.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, no. 5762 (February 10, 2006): 783–784.

Jones, Owen, Joshua Buckholtz, Jeffrey Schall, and Rene Marois. “Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed” (March 4, 2010). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1563612.

Karim, Ahmed A, Markus Schneider, Martin Lotze, Ralf Veit, Paul Sauseng, Christoph Braun, and Niels Birbaumer. “The Truth About Lying: Inhibition of the Anterior Prefrontal Cortex Improves Deceptive Behavior.” Cerebral Cortex 20, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 205–213.

Kim, Brian S, Judy Illes, Richard T Kaplan, Allan Reiss, and Scott W Atlas. “Incidental Findings on Pediatric MR Images of the Brain.” AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology 23, no. 10 (December 2002): 1674–1677.

Klein, Eran. “Is There a Need for Clinical Neuroskepticism?” Neuroethics 4, no. 3 (2011): 251–259.

Knabb, Joshua J, Robert K Welsh, Joseph G Ziebell, and Kevin S Reimer. “Neuroscience, Moral Reasoning, and the Law.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law 27, no. 2 (March 1, 2009): 219–236.

Koenigs, Michael, and Daniel Tranel. “Irrational Economic Decision-Making After Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage: Evidence from the Ultimatum Game.” The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 27, no. 4 (January 24, 2007): 951–956.

Langleben, Daniel D, and Frank M Dattilio. “Commentary: The Future of Forensic Functional Brain Imaging.” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online 36, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 502–504.

Littlefield, M. “Constructing the Organ of Deceit: The Rhetoric of fMRI and Brain Fingerprinting in Post-9/11 America.” Science, Technology & Human Values 34, no. 3 (April 29, 2008): 365–392.

Logothetis, Nikos K. “What We Can Do and What We Cannot Do with fMRI.” Nature 453, no. 7197 (June 12, 2008): 869–878.

“Lure of Lie Detectors Spooks Ethicists.” Nature 441, no. 7096 (June 22, 2006): 918–919.

Maroney, Terry. “The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice” (May 15, 2009). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1405367.

Maxwell, Bruce, and Eric Racine. “The Ethics of Neuroeducation: Research, Practice and Policy.” Neuroethics (n.d.): 1–3.

McKenna, Phil. “Can a Brain Scan Prove You’re Telling the Truth?” The New Scientist 193, no. 2590 (February 10, 2007): 13.

Meegan, Daniel V. “Neuroimaging Techniques for Memory Detection: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Issues.” The American Journal of Bioethics: AJOB 8, no. 1 (January 2008): 9–20.

Mobbs, Dean, Hakwan C Lau, Owen D Jones, and Christopher D Frith. “Law, Responsibility, and the Brain.” PLoS Biology 5, no. 4 (April 2007): e103.

Mohamed, Feroze B, Scott H Faro, Nathan J Gordon, Steven M Platek, Harris Ahmad, and J. Michael Williams. “Brain Mapping of Deception and Truth Telling About an Ecologically Valid Situation: Functional MR Imaging and Polygraph Investigation—Initial Experience1.” Radiology 238, no. 2 (February 1, 2006): 679–688.

Moll, Jorge, Ricardo De Oliveira-Souza, and Roland Zahn. “The Neural Basis of Moral Cognition: Sentiments, Concepts, and Values.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1124 (March 2008): 161–180.

Moreno, Joelle Anne. “Future of Neuroimaged Lie Detection and the Law, The.” Akron Law Review 42 (2009): 717.

Nadelhoffer, Thomas, Stephanos Bibas, Scott Grafton, Kent Kiehl, Andrew Mansfield, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Michael Gazzaniga. “Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law: Setting the Stage.” Neuroethics 5, no. 1 (2012): 67–99.

Nadelhoffer, Thomas. “Neural Lie Detection, Criterial Change, and OrdinaryLanguage.” Neuroethics 4, no. 3 (2011): 205–213.

Palmer, Colin, Bryan Paton, Trung Ngo, Richard Thomson, Jakob Hohwy, and Steven Miller. “Individual Differences in Moral Behaviour: A Role for Response to Risk and Uncertainty?” Neuroethics (n.d.): 1–7.

Pardo, Michael S., and Dennis Patterson. “Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience.” SSRN Electronic Journal (2009). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1338763.

Perlin, Michael. “‘And I Can See Through Your Brain’: Access to Experts, Competency to Consent, and the Impact of Antipsychotic Medications in Neuroimaging Cases in the Criminal Trial Process” (February 4, 2009). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1337219.

Priori, Alberto, F. Mameli, F. Cogiamanian, S. Marceglia, M. Tiriticco, S. Mrakic-Sposta, R. Ferrucci, S. Zago, D. Polezzi, and G. Sartori. “Lie-Specific Involvement of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Deception.” Cerebral Cortex 18, no. 2 (February 1, 2008): 451–455.

Pustilnik, Amanda C. “Violence on the Brain: A Critique of Neuroscience in Criminal Law.” Wake Forest Law Review 44 (2009): 183.

Racine, E, R Amaram, M Seidler, M Karczewska, and J Illes. “Media Coverage of the Persistent Vegetative State and End-of-life Decision-making.” Neurology 71, no. 13 (September 23, 2008): 1027–1032.

Racine, Eric, Ofek Bar-Ilan, and Judy Illes. “Brain Imaging.” Science Communication 28, no. 1 (September 2006): 122–142.

Racine, Eric, and Judy Illes. “Emerging Ethical Challenges in Advanced Neuroimaging Research: Review, Recommendations and Research Agenda.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: JERHRE 2, no. 2 (June 2007): 1–10.

Racine, Eric, Sarah Waldman, Jarett Rosenberg, and Judy Illes. “Details for Manuscript Number: SSM-D-09-00651 R2 ‘Contemporary Neuroscience in the Media’.” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 71, no. 4 (August 2010): 725–733.

Rakoff, Jed S. “Science and the Law: Uncomfortable Bedfellows.” Seton Hall Law Review 38 (2008): 1379.

Robertson, Diana, John Snarey, Opal Ousley, Keith Harenski, F DuBois Bowman, Rick Gilkey, and Clinton Kilts. “The Neural Processing of Moral Sensitivity to Issues of Justice and Care.” Neuropsychologia 45, no. 4 (March 2, 2007): 755–766.

Roskies, Adina. “Neuroethics for the New Millenium.” Neuron 35, no. 1 (July 3, 2002): 21–23.

Sanfey, Alan G, George Loewenstein, Samuel M McClure, and Jonathan D Cohen. “Neuroeconomics: Cross-currents in Research on Decision-making.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10, no. 3 (March 2006): 108–116.

Sapolsky, Robert M. “The Frontal Cortex and the Criminal Justice System.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 359, no. 1451 (November 29, 2004): 1787–1796.

Sartori, Giuseppe, Sara Agosta, Cristina Zogmaister, Santo Davide Ferrara, and Umberto Castiello. “How to Accurately Detect Autobiographical Events.” Psychological Science 19, no. 8 (August 2008): 772–780.

Schultz, Johannes. “Brain Imaging: Decoding Your Memories.” Current Biology 20, no. 6 (March 23, 2010): R269–R271.

Shen, Francis, and Owen Jones. “Brain Scans as Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, and Lessons” (February 24, 2011). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1736288.

Simpson, Joseph R. “Functional MRI Lie Detection: Too Good to Be True?” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online 36, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 491–498.

Taylor, J S. “Neurolaw: Towards a New Medical Jurisprudence.” Brain Injury: [BI] 9, no. 7 (October 1995): 745–751.

Tenovuo, Olli. “Pharmacological Enhancement of Cognitive and Behavioral Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury.” Current Opinion in Neurology 19, no. 6 (December 2006): 528–533.

Tovino, Stacey A. “Remarks: Neuroscience, Gender, and the Law.” Akron Law Review 42 (2009): 941.

Victoroff, Jeff. “Aggression, Science, and Law: The Origins Framework. Introduction.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (August 2009): 189–197.

Vincent, Nicole, Pim Haselager, and Gert-Jan Lokhorst. “‘The Neuroscience of Responsibility’—Workshop Report.” Neuroethics 4, no. 2 (2011): 175–178.

Vincent, Nicole. “Madness, Badness, and Neuroimaging-Based Responsibility Assessments” (April 12, 2010). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1588038.

———. “Neuroimaging and Responsibility Assessments.” Neuroethics 4, no. 1 (2011): 35–49.

———. “On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility.” Criminal Law and Philosophy 4, no. 1 (2010): 77–98.

———. “Responsibility, Dysfunction and Capacity.” Neuroethics 1, no. 3 (2008): 199–204.

Vrij, Aldert, Pär Anders Granhag, and Stephen Porter. “Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection.” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2010): 89–121.

Woodruff, William A. “Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect Deception: Not Ready for the Courtroom.” SSRN Electronic Journal (2011). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1809761.

Wortzel, Hal S, Christopher M Filley, C. Alan Anderson, Timothy Oster, and David B Arciniegas. “Forensic Applications of Cerebral Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2008): 310–322.

Yang, Yaling, Adrian Raine, Todd Lencz, Susan Bihrle, Lori Lacasse, and Patrick Colletti. “Prefrontal White Matter in Pathological Liars.” The British Journal of Psychiatry 187, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 320–325.