neuroscience could change that. once we understand and have a better understanding of human behavior and we recognize that there is a much finer graduation that we can draw than this bright line, perhaps it will shift the line or start over. it's not all that consistent, inconsistent with the way to do things. >> i think it is inconsistent, so if you want an open debate, we have to open the debate. >> i would like to jump in at some point. >> go ahead. >> we have the two distributions. we have one distribution based on "free will or volitional control" which applies on the civil side and used to apply under the a.l.i. test and now we have a new distribution of being able to distinguish right from wrong. so now we have two completely different distributions that we're drawing that bright line on. >> competent versus volitional. we can decide that cognitive isn't sufficient, but it is the basis where we draw the line. sorry. >> ok. so to get back to the science, do you see how the research that you're doing and this i

a directive on neuroscience and law, and that seeks to understand how what we're learning in modern neuroscience will navigate the way we build our legal systems and navigate social policy. at nighttime, that's when i write. >> he's written fantastic books, the best of which is some of his fiction work, which is fascinating. >> i wrote a book of fiction called "sum," which was a very private, intimate experience for me to write that over the course of seven years. "sum" is a book of 40 short stories, and each one takes place in the backdrop of a different possible afterlife. when it finally did get published, it became an international best seller. it's in 27 languages. then in 2012 it was turned into an opera at the university of royal opera. >> there isn't anything that david really isn't interested in finding anything about. >> i don't really have any down time. i don't understand when people say they're bored or have nothing to do. there is so much to be done in this world. so i'm finding ways to fill up my time. and what we did is we dropped people from a 150-foot-tall tower, and they're go

for the first time, the supreme court sided adolescents -- cited adolescent neuroscience. a 12-year-old brain develops. you will watch its start to mature until you hit about 24 or 25. for those of you who are parents, you do not need a scan. for those of us who went to adolescence, we know it was a time of poor decision making. the supreme court used the picture of the brain in order to make the decision. there is this nice development over time that is associated with changes in composition and changes in how you process the world and make decisions. ok. now you have another client named george. he is a 55-year-old white male offender. he has a history of being in and out of jail. his iq is very low. george has a very low iq, they might have to refer to him as being retarded. he has arrested for murder and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty. the supreme court said you are not allowed for individuals with low iqs. prosecution says the iq is 72, high enough to execute. is there anything that neuroscience can do about george? i am just kidding, this is george. [la

i was being a diligent teacher giving them 25 lectures a year in neuroscience, sell your molecular neuroscience was the name of the course using this text with that i'm fond of, one of the leading textbooks by eric candle and his colleagues but i'm fond of pointing out this textbook weighed 7.5 pounds, twice the weight of a normal human brain so that can be right. so i think the students i got the idea in my course that everything is known about neuroscience and that's certainly not true in the way we can track what we know about neuroscience as we build up facts and stick them in these encyclopedia books and that is not true. we don't know much about the brain yet at all. we don't even know what we don't know about the brain in some ways. we are still finding marvelous things out so i thought really i ought to teach these students something in neuroscience so i devoted a couple of lectures at the end end of course my thought why not try a whole course in this? why not see if it works with other sciences as well so that is what we do. the course meets once a week. it's a seminar course for two

and so i think the neuroscience helps to educate and change our ways that we understand drugs and drug addiction. >> another question is have you ever been allowed to testify regarding i.q. in a hearing or a trial using your program? >> yes, i just did that this weekend. so i testified this morning. i do know that -- so the atkins case was actually argued by a professor at the university of new mexico and he is constantly barraged by what's the best way to assess i.q., especially when you have these different tests and different measures, et cetera. i.q. is one of the most well studied things in psychology. so taking a brain scan and fitting your brain along a dimension and getting a value is just a slightly different way of doing it than giving you the tests and stuff like that. so i have not obviously testified to anything like that. i just tried to give that as an example. there is an enormous literature out there that is already peer-reviewed and published on i.q. there are dozens of papers. the big question is how well can i take a single person's brain scan and with what confiden

[applause] >> so what i showed you today was to give you that exact what is neuroscience doing in the legal is system and so that person of the person with the tumor, you could all see that and so can a radiologist. but the else that we do know of those images. no radiologist can just see by looking at them. we are so sensitive to individual differences in i.q., in age, in all of these different availables, psychopathy scores, whatever it is, we can develop beautiful pictures of these things. so the question is, how is the legal system going to deal with all of these different, you know, images and other types of things that we can now tell you about your brain and how is that going to change things? so i tend to view, you know, individuals who have brain differences for whatever reason worthy of developing better treatments for them that can help to remediate those problems. as psychologists, we study abnormal behavior. anita shows distribution, most of us in here. you get anybody out here who is externalizing or anyone out here who is internalizing, as a psychologist, we try to brin

so there is a disconnect in the neuroscience given the timing. >> so i would just comment that i think we have pretty decent treatments for remediating some of the most intractable individuals. they're not used around the world, et cetera, and many countries take individuals who have done very bad things as youth and have developed management and treatment strategies that keep them from reoffending when they're out in the community. they're much more man yearly. there is much more supervision than we typically get in the united states. it's usually much more cost-effective to manage them outside of a facility with high scrutiny than it is to incarcerate. as you probably know, california spends about eight times as much money for every inmate as it does for every student in the university of california system. and so you could reorganize those resources and put they will more towards supervision and other types of things and manage a lot of those individuals that are currently incarcerated in a much more effective way that is going to save you tax dollars but also reduce the chance that

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i was being made diligent teacher giving 25 lectures a year in neuroscience, using this textbook i am fond of was one of the leading textbooks in the field but i am fond of pointing out this way 7 pounds which was twice the weight of a normal human brain. that can't be right. so students got the idea by the end of the course that everything was known about neuroscience and that is certainly not true and the way we kept track of what we know is we build a lot of facts and stick them in these books and that is not true. we don't know much about the brain yet at all. we don't even know what we don't know about the brain. we are still finding marvelous thing about that we never would have thought of. i will teach the students the ignorance in neuroscience so i devoted a couple lectures to that at the end of the course and fought why not try a whole course on this and see if it works with other sciences as well so that is what we do. the course meets once a week. a seminar course for two hours in the evening and i invite members of the columbia faculty or other scientists to come and talk

just conventional wisdom that we are talk in from 40 years ago there is this amazing new neurosciencews there is a brain gentleman va gina vagina connection that people may be upset about not my leaders they are thrilled to learn more about themselves. the data explains why 30% of women report low sexual desire and another 30% some of the same well, some different, say that they don't reach orgasm when they want to. even in a hyper sexual icedized society. this is t*s not working for not working for women but this explains why. >> gavin: you are working around the mind vagina connection about, how is that controversial? it connects -- >> it's so funny, i wrote a book called misconceptions about the birthing industry which documented to understand of data on the brain uterus connection in childbirth that women are stressed they can't labor brain breast connection, lactation it's old news, no one was upset about it. but there is no data on the brain have volunteer gina connection when women have orgasms or even think about rewarding section dopamine, which is about motivation, initiativ

this is hard core neuroscience. you're powering up the brain to stay vigilant, say no and rein in impulses. >> reporter: step two. instead of ice cream we try a chocolate protein smoothie. >> there's not sugar in it. >> peanut butter. one of my favorite things. step three, move your muscles. >> she rewards her brain with endorphins. >> now if i have too much sugar i get violently sick. >> new science shows you increase the size of the brain because you stimulate brain growth. when you do things like physical activity. you induce changes in your genes. >> reporter: these scans show the reward senters reacting to a chocolate milkshake. for some people the pleasure receptors turn off. for others it keeps reacting, wanting more. by focusing on the three ms. mind, mouth and muscle. the doctor thinks you can restrain the brain. tara is in what dr. peak calls master recovery. she did something beyond her wild dreams. finished an iron man triathlon. >> no dream is improblem. >> reporter: tara said she'll be a recovering foo

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[applause] >> the way we structured this panel, a short presentation to introduce the topic of neuroscience. then we will go to ask questions of all the different members.

he was accepted to stanford planning to study neuroscience. >> hard to believe for me, actually. >> this grant covered inter internships for about 65 students. >> the other night we featured don sanchez marking his 40th anniversary, tonight another local legend who has been in broadcasting longer >>> there is a meet to get underway in just minutes. caltrans has been studying a possible of putting noise barriers on the free. a 2009 survey found the area near college avenue would benefit from the sound walls. tonight's meeting gives residents a chance to give their opinions and this takes place from 7:00 to 9:00 this evening. >> there is k fw. o radio traffic guru is retiring after a 51 year career. and don sanchez takes a look back. >> and in san francisco... >> for 51 years he's been one of the familiar voices on bay area radio. >> we'll take a look at highway 24. >> and updated traffic on the abc 7 morning news. the traffic broadcasting career was launched on the don cherwood show reporting from a passenger helicopter. >> there is when i've been told i'm the only nonpilot certified by t

problem the fact that americans love to pop those pills according to a new report in the chemical neuroscience journal america's more medicated now than ever before court of the report the total number of prescriptions in the u.s. increased to four billion in two thousand and eleven and here's what the journal's editor in chief craig lindsay had to say about the grim portrait she said when one looks at the trends and medications the united states is suffering from for lifestyle diet choices and an unprecedented increase in patients taking antidepressants and anti psychotics she goes on to say importantly increases in both sales and perceptions dispensed are positive signs for a struggling pharmaceutical industry. way to take let me say that last part again importantly increases in both sales and prescriptions dispensed are positive signs for a struggling pharmaceutical industry so let me get this straight americans crack down more addicted to prescription pills than ever before but that's all ok because at least the pharmaceutical companies have high job numbers to report right that's complete