following Sandy Hook elementary school
shooting in the United States we were
asked by the parents of children who
lost their children there to analyze
brains of kids that we’ve studied who’ve
killed other people versus kids in
prison who’ve not and when we did that
analysis I wasn’t sure that we would
find anything that different but we
really did we had you know about 25 kids
that had killed somebody else and we
compared them to 135 kids who hadn’t and
we were able to show that their brains
are different even at the individual
subject level like if you were a judge
and you wanted to know is this a
high-risk kid or a low-risk kid we can
say this up there’s a high-risk kid and
that can be kind of scary because we now
and have a tool that can help us
understand or can help predict the worst
type of things that we all want to
prevent a homicide of death when we
understand the systems of the brain that
predict these bad things that help to
that are different in people who commit
these bad crimes it gives us an
opportunity to try to develop a
treatment for that a way of addressing
it if I injured my arm in my this muscle
gets atrophied just like these certain
areas of their brain or atrophied eye I
might be able to develop a treatment
program that remediates that atrophy and
and fix it and that that’s the type of
treatments we’re trying to develop that
help to promote growth or development in
these areas the goal is to get them into
a program that minimizes the risk that
helps to to train those systems to
develop those system some sort of
treatment that might actually help
prevent them from doing that again
we had no budget and we may be a
Hollywood budget and we had enough money
to span thousands and thousands of
at-risk kids we might be able to tell
you that these are the highest risk kids
but even that group of kids all of them
aren’t gonna commit a homicide but maybe
they still need help so if you can
identify the highest risk kids with
whatever science you can then we should
be developing programs to help work with
those high risk
shooting in the United States we were
asked by the parents of children who
lost their children there to analyze
brains of kids that we’ve studied who’ve
killed other people versus kids in
prison who’ve not and when we did that
analysis I wasn’t sure that we would
find anything that different but we
really did we had you know about 25 kids
that had killed somebody else and we
compared them to 135 kids who hadn’t and
we were able to show that their brains
are different even at the individual
subject level like if you were a judge
and you wanted to know is this a
high-risk kid or a low-risk kid we can
say this up there’s a high-risk kid and
that can be kind of scary because we now
and have a tool that can help us
understand or can help predict the worst
type of things that we all want to
prevent a homicide of death when we
understand the systems of the brain that
predict these bad things that help to
that are different in people who commit
these bad crimes it gives us an
opportunity to try to develop a
treatment for that a way of addressing
it if I injured my arm in my this muscle
gets atrophied just like these certain
areas of their brain or atrophied eye I
might be able to develop a treatment
program that remediates that atrophy and
and fix it and that that’s the type of
treatments we’re trying to develop that
help to promote growth or development in
these areas the goal is to get them into
a program that minimizes the risk that
helps to to train those systems to
develop those system some sort of
treatment that might actually help
prevent them from doing that again
we had no budget and we may be a
Hollywood budget and we had enough money
to span thousands and thousands of
at-risk kids we might be able to tell
you that these are the highest risk kids
but even that group of kids all of them
aren’t gonna commit a homicide but maybe
they still need help so if you can
identify the highest risk kids with
whatever science you can then we should
be developing programs to help work with
those high risk
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