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Scientists at University of Southern California report research in life sciences

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, June 1st, 2007

Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report "Decision making and free will: a neuroscience perspective. A thorough analysis of the question of whether we possess "free will" requires that we take into account the process of exercising that will: that is, the neural mechanisms of decision making. Much of what we know about these mechanisms indicates that decision making is greatly influenced by implicit processes that may not even reach consciousness," scientists writing in the journal Behavioral Sciences & the Law report.

"Moreover, there exist conditions, for example certain types of brain injury or drug addiction, in which an individual can be said...

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