title: The law and neuroscience.
abstract: Some of the implications for law of recent discoveries in neuroscience are considered in a new program established by the MacArthur Foundation. A group of neuroscientists, lawyers, philosophers, and jurists are examining issues in criminal law and, in particular, problems in responsibility and prediction and problems in legal decision making.
authors.affiliation: SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Gazzaniga
mesh_terms: D003416:Criminal Law; D003417:Criminal Psychology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003657:Decision Making; D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010684:Philosophy