U of M Headliners: How Neuroscience Will Revolutionize the Law

It’s clear that neuroscience will revolutionize the law, but how? Lawyers, public policy makers, and the courts are already integrating neuroscience research into their arguments and opinions, and legislators are doing the same as they work to address mental health, addiction, dementia, prenatal care, education, and a host of other social policies. Better understanding of brain function offers great promise—but also great peril.

In this edition of Headliners, Dr. Francis X. Shen, a neurolaw pioneer and Associate Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, faculty member, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, will introduce the University of Minnesota’s cutting-edge role in this emerging field at the intersection of law and neuroscience. Topics will include criminal culpability, adolescent brain development, aging brains and capacity, brain-based lie detection, cognitive enhancement, memory, emotions, decision making, and more.

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