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Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers

A Guide for the Perplexed

By Owen D. Jones, Joshua W. Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall and Rene Marois

It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in civil and criminal litigation. This Article offers some general guidelines to legal thinkers about how to understand brain imaging studies—or at least avoid misunderstanding them. And it annotates a published brain imaging study by several of the present authors (and others) in order to illustrate and explain, with step-by-step commentary.

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December 14, 2009 Cite: 2009 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 5