Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: "It's boggling that the legal system's gold standard for an insanity defense-M'Naghten-is based on 166-year-old science. Our growing knowledge about the brain makes notions of volition, culpability, and, ultimately, the very premise of a criminal justice system, deeply suspect.
( Michael S. Gazzaniga )
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