is, dealing i have with neuroplasticity, how does the violent games and television that? and then in your systems with adults who repeat violent offenders, how can neural plassistity help mitigate vurt violent? dr. richman: those are the pieces of the puzzle that are missing and the research we're trying to find. the unsatisfying answer is we don't know. know what the video games do. we don't know what are the consequences, the physical manifestations of being abused, about theanged incarcerated individual. what we do know is that their are plastic. we know that much of what has been done can be undone. we don't know what it is, though, or how to fix it. not that satisfying. you have to start somewhere. microphone tothe you. six years, i have been previews at the theater on d.v.d. 70% of them are violent. that doesn't mean that my research is any good, you know. would you tell the group about amine, because they may want to read him. dr. richman: you'll have to emgicate me. i'm not familiar with the name. ok. a psychiatrist and he said why don't we study the brain, like y

neuroplasticity in response to her experiences.occurs on a molecular level and it occurs on the cellular level. contrary to what -- you were not born with a set number of rain cells that just go down with time. we are making new ones in reshaping the ones that we have all the time and you are doing it right now. some of us more than others. it occurs on a regional basis like the muscle. the more you use it the more effective it's usable and the less you use it that less the gets taken away from going to skip through the statistics but when you're born you have about 100 billion neurons in your head that's a large number but even cooler is each of those neurons has the ability to communicate with over 2500 other neurons which in turn communicate with another 2500 neurons. it's an amazingly elaborate network of communication going on that when he reached the age of three all the way up through adolescence, which is not a team somewhere for girls in their early 20s and boys a little bit later than that your brain is prime for communic