Category Archives: Neuroscience

Preface: The Opioid Crisis Opioids are used to modulate pain signals. The human body possesses an endogenous opiate pathway; this is how the brain modulates pain internally. The major neurotransmitter of the analgesia system is enkephalin, which inhibits a first-order presynaptic neuron from releasing substance p, and the second-order postsynaptic neuron from depolarizing; thus, preventingContinue reading “Research Strategies Scientists are Exploring to Create Better, Safer Treatments for Pain”

Neuroscience and neuroimaging are unequivocally useful for determining an individual’s fitness to stand trial. They also aid our understanding of areas of the brain responsible for a person’s behavior and decision making processes. Other applications of neuroscience in law such as lie detection tests and go/no-go tests are currently either: bias, less reliable, less replicable,Continue reading “Neuroscience and the Law”