the chief and i met with the behavioral sciences unit. it was even more revealing after the meeting. the work you are doing is credible. we want to hear about best practices. quite frankly, you are best practices. we are concerned about hearing about the issues that officers are dealing with. i think it is time for the public to know a little bit more than is in your initial presentation. you came up with some recommendations. i will turn it over to you. i would like to discuss this with the city this afternoon. >> good evening, commissioners. we did have a nice discussion about follow-up from the last presentation. we came up with some very important proposed action items. if you have any questions about any of them, please feel free to ask. if you want me to read them aloud or speak on each one. one of the items that we proposed, we are in the process of sending the proposals through. that is in the process of being signed off. it allows some of the commission's we are dealing with to be involved in the debriefing process of officer inv

the chief and i met with the behavioral sciences unit. it was even more revealing after the meeting. the work you are doing is credible. we want to hear about best practices.

keith humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, stanford school of medicine, department of psychiatry, stanford, california. beverly haberle, project director, pennsylvania recovery organization, achieving community together, southeast pennsylvania. joe powell, executive director, association of persons affected by addiction, dallas, texas. dr. thomasina borkman, professor of sociology emerita, george mason university, fairfax, virginia. keith, let's start out by letting the audience know what is the need for treatment in terms of substance use and mental disorders in this country? a lot of people aren't aware of how prevalent these conditions are, but amazingly there are 45 million american adults who meet the criteria for a mental health problem. and 23 million who meet it for substance use, alcohol or drugs. and most of those who also smoke and the overlap between those groups is about 10 million people who struggle with both of those problems. so that means at any given time one in four people in this country could conceivably benefit from treatment for mental health

v.a.and the university of washington school of medicine where she's a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. she joins me now. professor, a lot of people are familiar with insulin as the hormone that helps metabolize fat and car bow hydrate. what does it do in the brain and what led people to wonder if supplementing it might help with alzheimers? >> well, you're right. the most well known role of insulin is in treating diabetes. but in the last few years we've come to understand that insulin has a number of very important roles to play in the brain. in particular, it's very critical for memory, for memory to... memories to form. and it also protects against the toxic effects of proteins like the amaloid which is the protein that collects in the brains of patients with alzheimers disease. interestingly patients with alzheimers disease appear to have a deficiency of insulin in their brain or the insulin that is there doesn't work effectively. so that led us to wonder whether or not supplementing insulin would be of benefit to patients with alzheimers disease, possibly to improve their symptom

john townsend of the college of arts and science -- behavior and social science right beside pa.c we couldn't have done it without your support. much of the research you are hearing about is supported by the science and technology director to the department of homeland security and the center of excellence program. we worked closely with dhs and the behavioral science division from the sand and technology directors. we have quite a few people in the audience here from dhs. we have experience relating to 9/11 and also to the work i have been doing s.t.a.r.t. over the last ten years. during those years i have been the lead researcher on an intensive unclassified source of information on terrorist attacks called the global terrorism database or gtd which includes 100,000 terrorist attacks around world going back to 1970. in collecting and analyzing the data over the last week in years one theme that has come up repeatedly is held very small number of terrorist attacks can have a huge impact on attitudes and policies towards terrorism. policymakers referred to these as blacks one events

scott wetzler vice-chairman and department of behavioral sciences at montefiore medical center and ladonti vice president for the center of budget and policy priorities. thank you all again for being here. secretary alexander please proceed with your testimony. >> are in washington. things don't always work well here. >> chairman davis and subcommittee members thank you for the opportunity to speak today. my name is gary alexander and i am currently secretary of public welfare for the commonwealth of pennsylvania. this committee is well familiar with the fundamental changes in the social contract between the taxpayers and recipients of income and services under the personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996. for the first time the objective of the program explicitly emphasized self-reliance but equally importantly expectations were imposed in exchange for temporary assistance. with the central element in place, the legislation that once brought into alignment interests of all parties, recipient taxpayers and government lobbies recipients were motivated to mov

called it a cover up the dean of the tea party candidate called him a tyrant for his behavior with the texas forensic science commission however you know later it's an infamous thing they had some campaign conducted a focus group in which one member of focus groups said that he thought it was impressive it took balls to execute a possibly innocent man and so i think from there the campaign pretty much concluded that it wasn't much of an issue to make for a texas electorate so we'll see if it becomes an issue in this one i think the you know our film deals mostly with the science in the process and then the way that it's sort of not addressed in the in the political dialogue the former supreme court justice john paul stevens and also lewis powell both of them after they retired gave interviews in which they said both of them did were deciding votes in maintaining. stevens and yet stevens in establishing that powell in maintaining it definitely and both of them said now that they regret it in the thirty seconds we have left here do you see this case as maybe being the thing that will turn america. who knows it

the week's most you will during interesting or weird science news if you know somebody got metaphors we use an english language to describe human behavior like gut feeling it takes guts. well or some science behind these phrases because there are open lines of communication between our brains and our guts and a new study shows that in lab mice at least these channels allow gut bacteria to change motions and behavior the latest evidence for this gut brain axis comes from javier bravo university college cork and fed mice with a probiotic bacterium called lactobacillus ram knows it's so often found in yogurt dairy products pretty common stuff it's the stuff that makes yogurt milk milk a yogurt you know the probiotics that all the yogurt properties are so crazy about and bravos study the bacteria change the levels of signaling chemicals in the rodents brains and reduced behaviors associated with stress anxiety and depression this is possible because our guts and our brains are actually directly connected by a very long very fast branching nerve called the vegas now which transmits information from the gut and other visceral organs in the gu

sciences, this is not so much locally specific. we take great pride in the people who are here, and the behaviors that we exhibit in san francisco. good behavior is much more consistent and much more predictable. >> and why is there more research, why do we have this here and not on the west coast. >> this may have to be -- there have been projects that were up before the board of supervisors. they aren't working to overturn this, with these decisions -- and they had issues within the moratorium, with a building at the end of the pier. when this issue was raised, it was very sensitive to respond to, and the ports commission had laborious conditions that would have been much cheaper for the architect.

in the study of mind done across a wide range of spheres like neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, behavioralconomics, people are looking into the human mind. really it's a revolution because many synthesize their findings across these many different spheres can be released start with three key insights. the first site is for the conscious mind writes the autobiography of our species, most of the action in the most impressive action happens unconsciously below the level of awareness. one way to think about this is the human mind can take in roughly 12 million pieces of information a minute, which it can consciously process about 40. all the rest is done without our being aware of it. a lot of the things going on are somewhat odd. i figure research finding from the university of buffalo scholar is people named dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists. people named lawrence are disproportionately likely to become lawyers because unconsciously we gravitate towards things that are familiar, which is why need my daughter president of the united states brooks. [laughter] some other t

sciences, this is not so much locally specific. we take great pride in the people who are here, and the behaviors that we exhibit in san francisco. good behavior is much more consistent and much more predictable. >> and why is there more research, why do we have this here and not on the west coast. >> this may have to be -- there have been projects that were up before the board of supervisors.

behavior as the quintuplets gore the octomom. with breast feeding, i am not attacking the science behind breast-feeding. a lot of scions seems conclusively to prove it is better for a child health. but i find fascinating is how the women, especially celebrities who decide not to and use a formula where there is a great deal of pressure and added to buy the media to breast feed and women who make the other decision-making are castigated lourdes treated poorly i talk about jennifer lopez in the midst of her pregnancy made the decision to bottle feed her children. it is a personal decision that runs counter to the science but that is her choice. but what was interesting was the reaction is officially the taprooms she was called a lot of nasty names and her sanity was questioned and how dare she? all of the negative comments but again, says the said before not to make a linear connection that argument occupies the space to bottle feed my child argument gets marginalized. >> in terms of evidence andy extremity of remarks is self-evident of over the top. that a good idea but she is said double incarnate. >> c

sciences, this is not so much locally specific. we take great pride in the people who are here, and the behaviors that we exhibit in san francisco. good behavior is much more consistent and much more predictable. >> and why is there more research, why do we have this here and not on the west coast. >> this may have to be -- there have been projects that were up before the board of supervisors. they aren't working to overturn this, with these decisions -- and they had issues within the moratorium, with a building at the end of the pier. when this issue was raised, it was very sensitive to respond to, and the ports commission had laborious conditions that would have been much cheaper for the architect. >> this has been proposed through sequa. >> they are similar. since it has been on an ad hoc basis, there has been variation, because many different consultants would review different pieces of research that had been done. we spend and dedicated two or three years looking at the issue and consolidating it, looking at what we hoped were research considerations. a lot of people talk about high buildings, and that is not what their rese

in the study of mind done across a wide range of spheres like neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, behavioralomics, people are looking into the human mind. really it's a revolution because many synthesize their findings across these many different spheres can be released start with three key insights. the first site is for the conscious mind writes the autobiography of our species, most of the action in the most impressive action happens unconsciously below the level of awareness. one way to think about this is the human mind can take in roughly 12 million pieces of information a minute, which it can consciously process about 40. all the rest is done without our being aware of it. a lot of the things going on are somewhat odd. i figure research finding from the university of buffalo scholar is people named dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists. people named lawrence are disproportionately likely to become lawyers because unconsciously we gravitate towards things that are familiar, which is why need my daughter president of the united states brooks. [laughter] some other thin

in the study of mind done across a wide range of spheres like neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, behavioralconomics, people are looking into the human mind. really it's a revolution because many synthesize their findings across these many different spheres can be released start with three key insights. the first site is for the conscious mind writes the autobiography of our species, most of the action in the most impressive action happens unconsciously below the level of awareness. one way to think about this is the human mind can take in roughly 12 million pieces of information a minute, which it can consciously process about 40. all the rest is done without our being aware of it. a lot of the things going on are somewhat odd. i figure research finding from the university of buffalo scholar is people named dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists. people named lawrence are disproportionately likely to become lawyers because unconsciously we gravitate towards things that are familiar, which is why need my daughter president of the united states brooks. [laughter] some other t

behavior as well. where you often see is a multi- component improvements -- good science, good treatment options, good drugs, and also the individuals themselves making the changes necessary. host: we will go through four different stages of life and the to the leading causes of death. it comes as no surprise that for ages 1-24, accidents lead the list. homicide and suicide, in a close second or third. as you get older, a decline in car accidents, cancer increases, suicide is significant, as its heart disease. as you get older, heart disease and cancer begins to grow, and stays that way 65 and over. guest: what you see early on is the major causes of death are external. if they're not disease. there accidents, homicides, suicides at up to age 24, or thereabouts. in the next quarter, the major diseases, and, but it is really to 65 four fivet -- 45 range that the disease is coming in. i think people expected in the older ages, but not so much in these ages. i think it is surprising to many people that cancer is s large a cause of death as it is prior reaches as large a cause of death as it is prior -- a

behavior as well. where you often see is a multi- component improvements -- good science, good treatment options, good drugs, and also the individuals themselves making the changes necessary. host: we will go through four different stages of life and the to the leading causes of death. it comes as no surprise that for ages 1-24, accidents lead the list. homicide and suicide, in a close second or third. as you get older, a decline in car accidents, cancer increases, suicide is significant, as its heart disease. as you get older, heart disease and cancer begins to grow, and stays that way 65 and over. guest: what you see early on is the major causes of death are external. if they're not disease. there accidents, homicides, suicides at up to age 24, or thereabouts. in the next quarter, the major diseases, and, but it is really to 65 four fivet -- 45 range that the disease is coming in. i think people expected in the older ages, but not so much in these ages. i think it is surprising to many people that cancer is s large a cause of death as it is prior reaches as large a cause of death as it is prior -- a

science has developed these particular tools for understanding how the world works like having your experiment blinded. they have to blind the experiment because of the subject knows the condition they will change their behavior or act differently. if you are testing some particular drug, he has got the drug for weight-loss or whatever it is likely to change his behavior in multiple ways not related to the drug and when you get whatever it affect you get you don't know if it is caused by the drug war if he changed his diet or completed more exercises and maybe that is the cause of the affect you are measuring. it has to be double blinded because of the experimental knows what condition the subject is in the experiment her they record the data incorrectly. quite a bit of research on experimenter bias. why is this happening? because of something called a confirmation bias which is where you look for and find confirming evidence for what you already believe and ignore the other evidence. everybody does it. it is applicable to all of our beliefs. political beliefs and economic ideologies and social attitudes, religious faith, even our scientific series and hypotheses. we all employ the confirmation by as. it is t

his research focuses on psychology and behavior economics, and recently his work on decision making put to good use in understanding poverty, how to apply scienceverty in general, but the problem in particular. he's the codirector of ideas 42, which if i understand correctly, is sort of a think tank using science to solve real world problems such as how poor people get access to financial institutions, how people should choose health care coverage, how to improve educational opportunities, and low income housing, ect.. a great pleasure to not have to talk after him. derek bok is a research professor at harvard university. before that, he also did a few things at harvard university, for example, he taught in law school, then dean of the law school, and then for 20 years, he was our president. despite all his great service to harvard, we have refused to give the guy a break, so he continues to come back and teach courses and comes back is occasionally is president. [laughter] in his spare time while he's not busy being our president and leading other institutions, he's written about ten books on the state of higher education including most recent

psychological science of motivation is beginning to shed some light as what it takes from extreme the tuds. the from mere support to actually personalization and involvement in radical behaviors. and i think i will stop here. >> thank you very much, arie. john, same question to you, what do we know that we didn't know 10 years ago? >> thank you very much, peter and to s.t.a.r.t. for the very kind invitation to come here this morning. i want to preface my remarks by saying that someone who has spent a lot of time as a psychologist conducting research on terrorism and thinking about radicalization and deradicalization and i've been asked be to a little bit thought provoking so hopefully i won't disappoint. i've actually come to the view in recent times, i'm not entirely convinced that we should have allowed radicalization to take center stage. i think our, perhaps our preoccupation, if not obsession with radicalization has actually come at the expense of increasing our knowledge and understanding of terrorist behavior. in some ways, certainly from my perspectives it represents a fundamental acknowledgement of the challenge we have had in reconciling attitudes, beliefs and perha