RT Book, Section A1 Brower, Montgomery C. A2 Silbersweig, David A. A2 Safar, Laura T. A2 Daffner, Kirk R. SR Print(0) ID 1178765121 T1 Forensic Neuropsychiatry T2 Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology: Principles and Practice YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781260117103 LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1178765121 RD 2024/10/04 AB For as long as medicine has sought to diagnose and treat pathologies of thought, feeling, and behavior, society has turned to mental health professionals for insights into the perennial problems of crime and violence. The modern subspecialty of forensic psychiatry was pioneered in the United States by Dr. Isaac Ray, whose influential 1838 Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity argued for reform of the insanity defense based on advances in medical understanding of mental illness.1 Today, as discoveries in clinical neuroscience have fostered the increasing integration of neurology and psychiatry in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, improved understanding of brain structural-functional relationships has also begun to influence the ways in which the criminal justice system views antisocial behavior. In the 2005 landmark case of Roper v. Simmons, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment for crimes committed under the age of 18 is unconstitutional, based in part on advances in research concerning adolescent cognition and brain development.2