| Automatisms: Bridging clinical neurology with criminal law. | |
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PMID: 21145287 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The law, like neurology, grapples with the relationship between disease states and behavior. Sometimes, the two disciplines share the same terminology, such as automatism. In law, the "automatism defense" is a claim that action was involuntary or performed while unconscious. Someone charged with a serious crime can acknowledge committing the act and yet may go free if, relying on the expert testimony of clinicians, the court determines that the act of crime was committed in a state of automatism. In this review, we explore the relationship between the use of automatism in the legal and clinical literature. We close by addressing several issues raised by the automatism defense: semantic ambiguity surrounding the term automatism, the presence or absence of consciousness during automatisms, and the methodological obstacles that have hindered the study of cognition during automatisms. |
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Joshua Rolnick; Josef Parvizi |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2010-12-7 |
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Title: Epilepsy & behavior : E&B Volume: - ISSN: 1525-5069 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2010 Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-12-14 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100892858 Medline TA: Epilepsy Behav Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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