Mental Competency (Latest Articles)

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'

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Commentary: ethics-related implications and neurobiological correlates of false confessions in juveniles.

30 Dec 2008 Forensic psychiatrists typically have no role in the process of obtaining confessions. They may believe, as do others, that a confession removes any doubt about guilt, but false confessions are not rare. Like the police, forensic psychiatrists can ...
rec_pub_19767499-commentary-ethics-related-implications-neurobiological-correlates.htm

How to deal with euthanasia requests: a palliative filter procedure.

30 Dec 2008
rec_pub_19715628-how-deal-euthanasia-requests-palliative-filter-procedure.htm

[Risk factors of functional disorders in mental workers]

30 Dec 2008 The authors demonstrated that incomplete consideration of ergonomic requirements in occupational process organization results in more intensive work and therefore to marked unfavorable changes in various human body systems. Preventing functional ...
rec_pub_19670487-risk-factors-functional-disorders-mental-workers.htm

[Evaluation of Articles 33 and 59, of the Code of Deontology of Doctors in Catalonia (2005), judicially annulled]

30 Dec 2008 At the end of the year 2004, the Autonomous Conseil of the Medical School in Catalonia (Spain) approved its Deontology Code. The articles 33 and 59 were then judicially resorted by more than one hundred doctors in Catalonia; nowadays those articles ...
rec_pub_19507917-evaluation-articles-33-59-code-deontology-doctors-catalonia-2005.htm

Competency to be resentenced and the Rockefeller Drug Law reform act: how does it affect the mentally Ill?

30 Dec 2008 Many of the mentally ill prisoners in this country have been convicted of drug crimes. New York State's Rockefeller Drug Laws from the 1970s established harsh sentences for drug crimes to quell a perceived epidemic. These laws were reformed in 2004 ...
rec_pub_19535563-competency-resentenced-rockefeller-drug-law-reform-act-does-affect.htm

Personality disorders and criminal law: an international perspective.

30 Dec 2008 At the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a detention camp guard, charged with acts of murder and torture, advanced a plea of diminished responsibility. Defense psychiatrists testified that he had a personality ...
rec_pub_19535553-personality-disorders-criminal-law-international-perspective.htm

Jurors' perceptions of juvenile defendants: the influence of intellectual disability, abuse history, and confession evidence.

30 Dec 2008 Understanding jurors' perceptions of juvenile defendants has become increasingly important as more and more juvenile cases are being tried in adult criminal court rather than family or juvenile court. Intellectual disability and child maltreatment ...
rec_pub_19391102-jurors-perceptions-juvenile-defendants-influence-intellectual.htm

[Electroencephalographic signs of internal attention in the mental counting of heart beats]

30 Dec 2008 Attention is regarded as a dynamic spatio-temporal structure reflected inter alia in distribution patterns of total spectral power density of EEG alpha-rhythm obtained in volunteers. Factors influencing formation, time of existence and parameters of ...
rec_pub_19385427-electroencephalographic-signs-internal-attention-mental-counting.htm

Putting Oregon's Death with Dignity Act in perspective: characteristics of decedents who did not participate.

30 Dec 2008
rec_pub_19554817-putting-oregon-s-death-dignity-act-perspective-characteristics.htm

Religious belief and surrogate medical decision making.

30 Dec 2008
rec_pub_19554828-religious-belief-surrogate-medical-decision-making.htm

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