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 2024/04/20
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