Side Effects: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Unethical Behavior

through 3 are devoted to neuroscience and neuroimaging basics. While nonreductionistic about mindbody relationships, the authors acknowledge the primacy of our understanding of functional neuroanatomy. This section clarifies limitations about structure-function relationships and individual differences in functional anatomy and articulates ongoing challenges in developing a more nuanced understanding of human brain function. Roskies gives a clear assessment of the limitations of imaging techniques, laying a foundation for appropriate skepticism when reading the functional imaging neuroscience literature. Complex ideas and data analysis are presented in a readable and lucid manner, providing a fresh understanding of how imaging and other techniques derive information on brain functioning. These early chapters are useful for all readers as a prelude to understanding the legal perspective on basic science. Other contributions add to the book’s value as a reference, with a thorough explanation of rules governing the admissibility of scientific evidence and a series of chapters later in the volume that detail implications of neuroscience in specific legal questions, including juvenile justice and criminal law. As a final commentary for the reader, Roskies and Morse look to the future of neuroscience and the law and review possible circumstances in which neuroscience may be used for criminal defenses. As they tie together threads from other chapters, they balance optimism and skepticism about applications to come. The Primer serves equally well as an overview of neuroscience for the legal expert and a resource on pertinent law for the psychiatric or neuroscience expert witness. It occupies a niche between clinical neuropsychiatry and applied neuroimaging. Although, as the editors observe, applications of neuroscience are not yet widely accepted in legal proceedings, clinicians anticipating testimony in this area can use this book now.