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Inside the Brain of a Killer: The Ethics of Neuroimaging in a Criminal Conviction

Jenny Straiton, Francesca Lake

2021BioTechniques19 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

With neuroimaging techniques being taken out of the lab and into the court, we ask whether brain scans can - or should - be used to explain a criminal act.

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