title: [Neurolaw: its relevance for forensic psychiatry].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Neurolaw is a new interdisciplinary area of research which investigates, from different perspectives, the significance of the neurosciences for law.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To clarify the relevance of neurolaw for forensic psychiatry.
  
  
  METHODS
  The importance of neurolaw developments for forensic psychiatry was analysed on the basis of recent literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some of the developments in the field of neurolaw research concern issues that are currently evaluated by forensic psychiatrists, such as risk of recidivism and legal insanity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Developments in neurolaw are relevant for forensic psychiatry in a number of ways. An important problem, not yet resolved, is to what extent psychiatry will be prepared to help in shaping these developments.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Meynen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000379:methods*; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery