RT Article
T1 Limitations Using Neuroimaging to Reconstruct Mental State After a Crime
JF Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
VO 30
IS 4
SP 694
OP 701
A1 Vitacco, Michael J.
A1 Randolph, Alynda M.
A1 Aguiar, Rebecca J. Nelson
A1 Staats, Megan L. Porter
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827977078
AB Neuroimaging offers great potential to clinicians and researchers for a host of mental and physical conditions. The use of imaging has been trumpeted for forensic psychiatric and psychological evaluations to allow greater insight into the relationship between the brain and behavior. The results of imaging certainly can be used to inform clinical diagnoses; however, there continue to be limitations in using neuroimaging for insanity cases due to limited scientific backing for how neuroimaging can inform retrospective evaluations of mental state. In making this case, this paper reviews the history of the insanity defense and explains how the use of neuroimaging is not an effective way of improving the reliability of insanity defense evaluations.
K1 insanity defense
K1 clinical diagnoses
K1 brain and behavior
K1 forensic psychiatric and psychological evaluations
K1 neuroimaging
DO 10.1017/S0963180121000165