Touch of a psychopathy for a nanosecond. How do we study people like him . We can transport him out from the present to the hospital. One of the things my lab does, we built a really nice trailer in new mexico. Here is my trailer. I live in a trailer in mexico. [laughter] this trailer has a really nice mri in it. We work with inmates to volunteer force studies and how to make them better. What we have found is that individuals to have those psychopathic traits, only about a third of all inmates will score really high on the straights. They have reduced gray matter density in these areas. This is the same area where that guy had the tumor. These individuals, control and for all the important things, they are all from pretty average environments. Extremely different in terms of structure. Does this go towards mitigation . How should it be used . How should this information be used to . I use it to dole out treatment. That is how i thought we would kick start this seminar. I am happy to a
Touch of a psychopathy for a nanosecond. How do we study people like him . We can transport him out from the present to the hospital. One of the things my lab does, we built a really nice trailer in new mexico. Here is my trailer. I live in a trailer in mexico. [laughter] this trailer has a really nice mri in it. We work with inmates to volunteer force studies and how to make them better. What we have found is that individuals to have those psychopathic traits, only about a third of all inmates will score really high on the straights. They have reduced gray matter density in these areas. This is the same area where that guy had the tumor. These individuals, control and for all the important things, they are all from pretty average environments. Extremely different in terms of structure. Does this go towards mitigation . How should it be used . How should this information be used to . I use it to dole out treatment. That is how i thought we would kick start this seminar. I am happy to a
An interesting question. Should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To date, we havent. In the future, we may wish to. I agree with that. I think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the au
It . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To date, we havent. In the future, we may wish to. I agree with that. I think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the audience could control themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to earlier between how science deals with this question and how lawyers deal with this question is that you actually get a fundamental disconnect between the two systems. So you mentioned that lack of emotional control or lack of ability to control your preferences might lead to insanity, but, in fact, in most jurisdictions as you know, thats not true. After hanky was acquitted under the American Law Institute test because he could not control his behavior, congress in most state jurisdictions cha
With different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To date, we havent. In the future, we may wish to. I agree with that. I think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the audience could control themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to earlier between how science deals with this question and how lawyers deal with this question is that you actua