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Data on life sciences discussed by researchers at University of Medicine

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

A new study, "The historical debate on brain and legal responsibility--revisited," is now available. According to recent research published in the journal Behavioral Sciences & the Law, "The actual discussion on brain research, free will, and legal responsibility repeats all the arguments of a very similar discussion in central Europe 100 years ago, around 1900. Already back then the idea that human perception, emotions, thinking and behavior have a material basis was not new."

"It is conditioned and limited by the structure and workings of the brain. This applies to sane and sick brains alike. In this debate criminality was made a topic of biology by...

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