Jay giedd neuroscience group
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A convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong: A teenager high on cocaine stands trial for attempted murder.
Using this fictional crime, a two-episode PBS program titled “Brains on Trial” explores the brains of the key courtroom players—defendant, witnesses, jurors, and judge. Is a witness lying or telling the truth? How can two people see the same event and yet remember it so differently? These and other questions are what neuroscience currently is being asked to do using brain scans.
Join host Alan Alda as he visits and conducts brain scan experiments with neuroscientists, such as the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)’s Jay Giedd, M.D., in the quest to answer how brain research can influence and reform the criminal justice system. Dr. Giedd is chief of the Unit on Brain Imaging in the Child Psychiatry Branch at NIMH.
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Speakers
The following speakers will be giving talks in the workshop
Jay Giedd, University of California in San Diego, USA
Jay N. Giedd, M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD, and Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. In addition, he is an adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the Department of Family and fortplantnings- Medicine. Dr. Giedd has combined brain imaging, genetics, and behavioral analysis to explore the path and influences of brain development in health and illness. As one of the most highly cited neuroscientists of his generation, his over scientific publications have had a transformative impact on medicin, psychology, education, judicial, and public policy. Dr. Giedd’s recent work has focused on how new insights from pediatric neuroscience can be used to optimize the environment for healthy brain development, particularly regarding education and the use
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