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Brain Scans
Evil is all in the brain. Or is it?
Michael Cook | 07 February 2013 |
After 3000 years of speculation, a German neurologist has finally located the source of evil. Well, at least Das Bild says he has. Gerhard Roth showed the tabloid images of the offending portion of the brain. It is an 'evil patch' in the brain's central lobe which shows up as a dark mass on X-rays, he says.
Brain scans could replace SATs in 20 years
Jared Yee | 26 May 2012 |
By 2032, students' brain characteristics could be the deciding factor in whether they get into the college of their dreams, researcher Prof Richard Heier, of the University of California Irvine, says.
Italian murderer’s sentence reduced after brain scans
Michael Cook | 23 September 2011 |
For the second time in two years an Italian court has reduced the sentence of a convicted murderer because of abnormal brain scans.
Child brain scans to identify future criminals
Jared Yee | 05 March 2011 |
The seeds of criminal and antisocial behaviour can be detected in children as young as three by using tests and brain imaging, a leading criminologist has claimed.
Brain scan fails legal test in Tennessee
Michael Cook | 11 June 2010 |
But judge does not rule it out as a possibility
Brain scan evidence dismissed in New York court
Michael Cook | 07 May 2010 |
But lawyers keep on trying to use the technology to determine whether people are telling the truth
Brain scan studies questioned
Michael Cook | 20 March 2010 |
Reliability still in doubt
Brain scans used as evidence in US murder sentencing
Jared Yee | 28 November 2009 |
Illinois convict’s brain disorder affects sentencing process
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