Neurolaw Used In Court Cases

Brains are individual to the person, individual because of the events and damage the brain has gone through. People’s mental status isn’t based of one thing or one small time frame.
Neurolaw is used in the legal system dealing with court cases that may involve the brain. The number of cases involving this are slowly rising and that number doesn’t include the hundreds of cases that are not documented. Scientists aren’t all on the same level when it comes to asking the question, “Are we responsible for the crimes we commit if our brain is sick?”. What is the definition of sick? Different doctors are going to have different definitions of “sick”. Is it the mental illness sick like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia? Or is it like Kevin, who had a chunk of his brain removed because of tumors that took away some of his self-control. I …show more content…
It may have been the person or it may have been the brains lack of control, causing us to do something we would never normally do. Kevin had multiple seizures regularly. Two major brain surgeries seemed to bring him back to normal for the short term but little did his wife know, he lacked a good amount of self-control now. He was watching and downloading child pornography, something illegal that you would never do “just because”. His doctor took some account for the crime when he was brought into court, saying that the surgery took away part of his brain that kept the lid on those thoughts that should always stay thoughts. Kluver Bucy syndrome was the name that his doctor gave it. It was a real thing and was a result from the surgery. It’s rare but it’s real. So Kevin would be off the hook right? Wrong. The evidence used against Kevin was his work computer was clean, no videos, no pictures, so why did his home