Emotional Damages Episode 4 Recap: Understanding ASD in Civil and Criminal Proceedings with Dr. Bryna Siegel

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is increasingly relevant in civil and criminal litigation, but misconceptions about the condition often complicate legal proceedings. In this episode of Emotional Damages, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Ambarin Faizi sits down with autism expert Dr. Bryna Siegel to explore how ASD is assessed in forensic cases and what attorneys need to know when handling autism-related claims.

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Emotional Damages Episode 3 Recap: Addressing Trauma from Childhood Sexual Abuse with Dr. Saldanha & Attorney Jon Daggett

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The third episode of Emotional Damages: Practical Insights into Forensic Psychiatry for Litigating Attorneys tackles one of the most challenging topics in forensic psychiatry and the law: addressing adult cases of childhood sexual abuse. Forensic psychiatrist and host Dr. Ambarin Faizi leads a compelling discussion with Dr. Charles Saldanha, Co-Medical Director of fpamed, and Attorney Jon Daggett, Managing Partner at Hiroshima & Daggett Law Firm.

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Heart Rate and Behavioral Medicine

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An interesting editorial in the October 2015 issue of JAMA Psychiatry entitled “Low Resting Heart Rate as an Unequivocal Risk Factor for Both the Perpetration of and Exposure to Violence” is a remarkable announcement of a biomarker for predicting which child or adolescent is most likely to behave violently and/or become a victim of violence. […]

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Infantile Amnesia – a mystery begins to be understood

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Thomas Insel, MD, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, has written in his a blog a very interesting article about new research into the nature of Infantile Amnesia – the fact that adults cannot accurately retrieve memories of events and experiences (i.e., autobiographical memory) that occurred before age 4 years. As this […]

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Studies Mixed On Effects of Violent Video Games On Children

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Studies Mixed On Effects Of Violent Video Games On Children. The Los Angeles Times (5/3, Adams) reports, “A number of studies have shown that watching a lot of violence on television or playing violent video games…produces aggressive tendencies in kids.” However, “other researchers pooh-pooh such assertions and say that scientific findings have been decidedly mixed […]

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Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry With Children and Adolescents

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By Richard A. Ratner, M.D. Psychiatric Times | December 2005 | Vol. XXIII | Issue 14 Any discussion of contemporary child and adolescent forensic psychiatry will eventually encompass considerations of the ethical underpinnings of this work. Ethical issues arise inevitably in clinical work with children and adolescents and are even more likely to surface in forensic settings. Download Ethical Issues […]

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