Emotional Damages Episode 12 Recap: Brain, Behavior, and the Law—Dr. Michelle Ward on Psychopathy, Science, and Real-World Forensic Consulting

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In this episode of Emotional Damages, Dr. Mark Levy interviews Dr. Michelle Ward—neuroscientist, forensic psychologist, and host of Investigation Discovery’s “Mind of a Murderer” and the hit podcast “Look Who’s Stalking.” Dr. Ward shares candid stories from her pioneering research and courtroom consulting, revealing how science, genetics, and lived experience shape our evolving understanding of criminal behavior and risk.

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Researchers May Have Identified Biomarker for Concussion

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This article posted today in JAMA Neurology, offers the promise of an objective biomarker for mTBI. Such a biomarker, if its reliability is established, would enable forensic psychiatric, neuropsychiatric and neurologic experts to offer to the trier of fact objective evidence for the presence of a mTBI.   from Psychiatric News Alert, the voice of the American […]

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9th Circuit Rules That “Zone of Danger” Sufficient to Justify PTSD Claims

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The 9th circuit federal appeals court majority said Tuesday that a previous ruling, and an earlier Supreme Court decision, allow an emotonal damages suit alleging Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by a seaman who was in a negligently operated vessel’s “zone of danger.”

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Study Finds Settling Is Better Than Going to Trial

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  August 8, 2008 Study Finds Settling Is Better Than Going to Trial By JONATHAN D. GLATER Note to victims of accidents, medical malpractice, broken contracts and the like: When you sue, make a deal. That is the clear lesson of a soon-to-be-released study of civil lawsuits that has found that most of the plaintiffs […]

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