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- These two approaches represent just two of the approaches discussed by the court, and are, by necessity, simplified for the purposes of this paper . 2007 . For a detailed discussion of the many more subtle grades of approaches raised by the court in Markarian, see: Bennett H, Broe GA, Judicial neurobiology, Markarian synthesis and emotion: How can the human brain make sentencing decisions? . Criminal Law Journal , 31 : 75 – 90 .
- It is not possible, within the scope of this paper, to discuss other relevant prefrontal regions, such as the medial frontal region (including the anterior cingulate gurus).
- Reference will be made in this paper only to the ventromedial cortex, rather than making the distinction between research that has focused on the orbitobasal, as opposed to the ventromedial cortex.
- This discussion of the brain and its cognitive and behavioural associations is highly simplified for the purposes of this paper . 2006 . For non-neuroscientists interested in understanding this area in greater detail, an excellent discussion and explanation of brain anatomy and its functional associations with decision-making is available in: Damasio A. Descartes' error: emotion, reason, and the human brain , London : Vintage Books . References to individual scientific papers on discrete areas of decision-making are available in the Markarian paper cited above
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