Illuminating lies with brain scan beats polygraph test The study, published in the Journal of Scientific Psychiatry, found that scanning individuals’s brains with fMRI, or practical magnetic resonance imaging, was significantly more effective at identifying lies than a traditional polygraph test. It has been …

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Marijuana is a danger to young people Dr. Shelly F. Greenfield is the Kristine M. Trustey endowed chair in psychiatry at McLean Medical facility and a teacher at Harvard Medical School. Bertha Madras is a psychobiologist in the department of alcohol and drug abuseat McLean Hospital and professor at …

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medical dean to step down Brown’s termination was effective Friday. Laine Young-Walker, the medical school’s chief of the Division of Kid and Teen Psychiatry, was decided to change her. Brown signed up with MU’s professors in 1998 and was in the associate dean function since 2006. See all stories on this subject