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Beneath the Top of the Iceberg- Financial Capacity Deficits in Mixed Dementia with and without Depression
This study found that individuals with mixed dementia (MD) exhibit impaired financial capacity, especially when also experiencing depression. This suggests a need for targeted support for financial decision-making in this population.
Vulnerability, ageism, and health: is it helpful to label older adults as a vulnerable group in health care?
This article explores whether labeling older adults as a vulnerable group in healthcare is helpful. It examines different concepts of vulnerability and ageism's role in how older adults are perceived and treated.
Vulnerability of Older Adults to Government Impersonation Scams
A study found that older adults are highly vulnerable to government impersonation scams. Many participants provided personal information when contacted by a fictitious agency about their Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The Effects of Financial Attitudes, Financial Literacy and Health Literacy on Sustainable Financial Retirement Planning: The Moderating Role of the Financial Advisor
This study examines the factors influencing financial retirement planning among self-employed Malaysians. Many self-employed individuals lack financial literacy and struggle with retirement savings, making planning essential.
Treating Substance Use Disorders in the Criminal Justice System
Many people involved with the US criminal justice system struggle with drug use and addiction. Providing effective drug treatment at various stages could help reduce crime and repeat offenses.
Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain
An experiment attempted to detect brain differences between mental states relevant to criminal law. Jurors often struggle to distinguish between "knowing" and "reckless" mental states, highlighting a critical gap in the justice system.
Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS): A team science effort to predict societal trajectories in adolescence and young adulthood
The Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS) program examines how young people contribute to society. It combines individual, social, and societal factors to understand why some adolescents navigate challenges more successfully.
Examining Associations Between Genetic and Neural Risk for Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescence and Early Adulthood
This article explores how inherited traits and brain activity relate to externalizing behaviors like ADHD and substance use. It finds genetic factors and a specific brain response (P3 amplitude) are both linked to these behaviors.
Alexithymia as a mediator of the associations between child maltreatment and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in adolescence
Child maltreatment is linked to difficulties in managing emotions, known as alexithymia. This alexithymia may explain the connection between childhood abuse and later behavioral problems in adolescents.
Prospective associations of family conflict with alcohol expectancies in the adolescent brain cognitive development study: Effects of race and ethnicity
Alcohol use in adolescents is a major public health concern. Family conflict is linked to alcohol use and its anticipated outcomes, called expectancies. These expectancies operate differently across racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry
The U.S. Supreme Court has deemed the death penalty unconstitutional for intellectually disabled and juvenile offenders. It also halted executions in 1972, finding Georgia's law allowed arbitrary sentencing.
Bio-behavioral scientific evidence alters judges' sentencing decision-making: A quantitative analysis
Research shows mental health evidence, particularly innate conditions, increasingly influences criminal sentencing. However, its impact varies, with inconsistencies across cases and differing views on mitigating versus aggravating factors.
Mandatory Sentences as Strict Liability
This article argues that mandatory sentences should be viewed as a type of strict liability, similar to crimes not requiring criminal intent. It proposes applying the same limits on strict liability crimes to mandatory sentences.
Neuroscience and the insanity defense: Trying to put a round peg in a square hole.
Public perception of the insanity defense is largely negative, viewing it as a loophole despite its infrequent use. Forensic evaluations for insanity also face challenges with consistency and objectivity among different evaluators.
Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories
A study using brain imaging to investigate legal mental states was poorly designed and did not accurately measure brain activity for "knowledge" or "recklessness." Brain science may not be the right way to validate these legal concepts.