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  • 2013-09-12T02:00:00Z
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  • 2h (2 episodes)
  • United States
  • Documentary
Brains on Trial with Alan Alda takes a fictitious crime-a convenience store robbery that goes horribly wrong-and builds from it a gripping courtroom drama. As the trial unfolds it takes us into the brains of the major participants-defendant, witnesses, jurors, judge- while Alan Alda visits the laboratories of some dozen neuroscientists exploring how brains work when they become entangled with the law. The research he discovers raises the controversial question: How does our rapidly expanding ability to peer into people's minds and decode their thoughts and feelings affect trials like the one we are watching in the future? And should it?

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2013-09-12T02:00:00Z

1x01 Determining Guilt

Series Premiere

1x01 Determining Guilt

  • 2013-09-12T02:00:00Z1h

Part 1 of 2. The ways in which advances in neuroscience may change the criminal-justice system are explored via the fictional trial of a teenager who's accused of attempted murder. Host Alan Alda also visits with neuroscientists.

2013-09-19T02:00:00Z

1x02 Deciding Punishment

1x02 Deciding Punishment

  • 2013-09-19T02:00:00Z1h

Part 2 of 2. The fictional trial reaches the penalty phase, with the judge hearing from the court-appointed psychiatrist, victim's husband and defendant. Alan Alda, meanwhile, learns how neuroscience is already influencing the sentencing of defendants.

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