1st Edition
Neuroscience and Society The Interface of Neuroscience and the Social Sciences
List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Neuroscience of Decision Making
Ted Doykos and Gidon Felsen
Chapter 2: Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics: A Brief History and Overview
Karolina M. Lempert
Chapter 3: Neuroscience and the Free Will Debate
Natalia Peraza and John R. Monterosso
Chapter 4: Neurolaw: Overview, Past, Present, Future
Emily R.D. Murphy
Chapter 5: Neurolaw and Psychiatry
Gerben Meynen
Chapter 6: Stochastic Determinism and Criminal Law
Sukumar Vijayaraghavan
Chapter 7: Neuroscience in Psychiatry
Guido K.W. Frank and Joel Stoddard
Chapter 8: Introduction to Neuroethics
Sukumar Vijayaraghavan
Chapter 9: The Capacity for Evaluation of the Human Brain and Its Implications for an Artificial Moral Subject
Michele Farisco and Kathinka Evers
Chapter 10: The Neuroscience of Humor
Shelia M. Kennison
Chapter 11: The Neuroscientific Study of Religious and Spiritual Phenomena
Andrew B. Newberg
Index
Biography
Dr. Sukumar Vijayaraghavan is an neuroscientist and professor at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado, School of Medicine. He has wide-ranging interests from synaptic transmission, olfaction, and drug addiction to graduate education and the interaction between neuroscience and social sciences.
Dr. Gidon Felsen is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms of decisions and actions under normal and pathological conditions and on how neuroscience can inform societally relevant questions.
