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March 12, 2007
People News. Neuroscience Law
People News. Neuroscience Law: There's art in everything. The creative process is one of those universal skills that permeates the core of our existence. We came across this interesting article about Neuroscience and the Law in the NY Times. What did the forefathers envision when they were crafting the nation's legal components? What does science envision the future to be? The intersection of these two questions made for a great read.
As reported by the NY Times: "When historians of the future try to identify the moment that neuroscience began to transform the American legal system, they may point to a little-noticed case from the early 1990s. The case involved Herbert Weinstein, a 65-year-old ad executive who was charged with strangling his wife, Barbara, to death and then, in an effort to make the murder look like a suicide, throwing her body out the window of their 12th-floor apartment on East 72nd Street in Manhattan. Before the trial began, Weinstein’s lawyer suggested that his client should not be held responsible for his actions because of a mental defect — namely, an abnormal cyst nestled in his arachnoid membrane, which surrounds the brain like a spider web."
Read more about the Brain on the Stand [Here]
Posted by taj at March 12, 2007 10:42 AM