The Brain Defense-Neuroscience in the Courtroom

In the past 25 years, neuroscience has become a prominent factor in many court cases. Defense attorneys are successfully arguing that a defendant may not be responsible for a crime or should receive a lesser punishment because of brain abnormalities or injuries. Kevin Davis, journalist, author of The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms discussed how this is changing how judges and juries define responsibility and assign punishment.