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Neuroscience and the Law: Are there better ways to approach and rehabilitate criminal behavior?

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Read an article focusing on my work on the intersection of neuroscience and the law.

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Watch an interview I gave on Reason.TV about how neuroscience could completely change the way we view criminal rehabilitation and the law.

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