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By Alisa Sparkia Moore, Esq., and Leryn Doggett Messori, M.A., PsyD Candidate Whether and when a convicted defendant may be executed may depend on the level of his intellectual disability, age, and admitt...

Using Neuroscience to Prevent a Defendant’s Execution

intellectual disability, Hall v. Florida, neuroscience...

“Domestic Violence, Developing Brains and the Lifespan: New Knowledge from Neuroscience” In 2000 I added a ground breaking unit on the neurobiology of trauma to the National Judicial Education Progra...

How Neuroscience Informs the Best Interests of a Child

Carl M. Dawson, M.S., LPC, MAC, Q-SAP “First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.” Edward Rowland Sill (1886) At the moment a drug enters your brain,...

How Drugs and Behaviors Hijack the Brain

neuroscience, drug addiction