Brain fingerprinting in litigation

‘BRAIN FINGERPRINTING’: A Critical Analysis

20 Recent efforts by various investigators have been directed at using brain waves in detection of deception. One investigator, Lawrence A. Farwell, left academia about a decade ago and founded his company, Farwell Brain Fingerprinting. (See http:/www.brainwavescience.com/.) This business is actively commercializing a putative deceptionrevealing technology in connection with forensic and relate...

Vascular Fingerprinting in Rat Brain Tumors

Vascular Fingerprinting in Rat Brain Tumors Benjamin Lemasson, Nicolas Pannetier, Régine Farion, Emmanuel Barbier, Norbert Schuff, Michael Moseley, Greg Zaharchuk, and Thomas Christen U836, Iserm, Grenoble, France, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, Va medical center, Centre for neurodegenerative des eases, San Francisco, CA, United States, Univers...

Diffusion tensor imaging in mild traumatic brain injury litigation.

A growing body of literature addresses the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Most TBIs are of mild severity, and their diagnosis and prognosis are often challenging. These challenges may be exacerbated in medicolegal contexts, where plaintiffs seek to present objective evidence that supports a clinical diagnosis of mild (m)TBI. Because DTI permits qu...

1 “ Brain Fingerprinting : ” a Critical Analysis

Brain Fingerprinting: Detection of Concealed Information

The record stored in the brains of the witness and perpetrator is often a much more comprehensive account of the crime than what can be pieced together from connecting a few specific features of the crime scene with a few specific features of the perpetrator. This record has not been accessible to scrutiny. The stored record has the advantage of often providing by far the most comprehensive acc...