Former guest blogger Peter Reiner writes here about recent research (making headlines all over the place) showing how extinction training can be particularly effective when done soon after a disturbing experience. Peter notes that extinction...

Terry Maroney (Law, Vanderbilt) has posted the final version of The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice (Notre Dame Law Review, 2010) to SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Recent scientific findings about the developing teen...

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Sally Satel writes in Forbes about neuromarketing hype, particularly of the EEG variety.  Here's how she concludes: Having raised an impressive $9 million, the least one can safely say about EmSense is that it surely knows how to market itself....

A student group dedicated to law and neuroscience has launched at the University of Pennsylvania and the group is reaching out to other law students as well.  Martha Farah writes in with some details: The Law and Brain Student Group was started...