Dr. Jhilam Biswas

Thank you. I think you're doing such a huge service.

Thank you. I think you're doing such a huge service.

Thank you. I think you're doing such a huge service.

A lot of what I've done is research. So I worked at a forensic hospital for many years, and I realized that it was very hard to get the courts to allow us to provide medications for psychotic illness in time if somebody didn't have the insight into knowing that they needed it. So what we ended up doing, and I was the principal investigator in this research project, is

A lot of what I've done is research. So I worked at a forensic hospital for many years, and I realized that it was very hard to get the courts to allow us to provide medications for psychotic illness in time if somebody didn't have the insight into knowing that they needed it. So what we ended up doing, and I was the principal investigator in this research project, is

A lot of what I've done is research. So I worked at a forensic hospital for many years, and I realized that it was very hard to get the courts to allow us to provide medications for psychotic illness in time if somebody didn't have the insight into knowing that they needed it. So what we ended up doing, and I was the principal investigator in this research project, is

It took years to get all the agencies to sign off on doing a research study in the carceral setting on mental illness. But what I did in the forensic hospital, this is all those individuals you're talking about with mental illness. But also a lot of my patients did have an autism diagnosis.

It took years to get all the agencies to sign off on doing a research study in the carceral setting on mental illness. But what I did in the forensic hospital, this is all those individuals you're talking about with mental illness. But also a lot of my patients did have an autism diagnosis.

It took years to get all the agencies to sign off on doing a research study in the carceral setting on mental illness. But what I did in the forensic hospital, this is all those individuals you're talking about with mental illness. But also a lot of my patients did have an autism diagnosis.

Not all of them, but certainly we do see a correlation of individuals with autism who might have a comorbid serious mental illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or PTSD, you know, because what happens when you have autism and you're having difficulty with social cues and having difficulty with reading social situations, it can't, it just makes you more vulnerable.

Not all of them, but certainly we do see a correlation of individuals with autism who might have a comorbid serious mental illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or PTSD, you know, because what happens when you have autism and you're having difficulty with social cues and having difficulty with reading social situations, it can't, it just makes you more vulnerable.

Not all of them, but certainly we do see a correlation of individuals with autism who might have a comorbid serious mental illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or PTSD, you know, because what happens when you have autism and you're having difficulty with social cues and having difficulty with reading social situations, it can't, it just makes you more vulnerable.

to fall into difficult situations, meeting up with law enforcement, law enforcement not necessarily reading you right or reading you well, and it resulting in something that's much bigger or spiraling out of control. And so...

to fall into difficult situations, meeting up with law enforcement, law enforcement not necessarily reading you right or reading you well, and it resulting in something that's much bigger or spiraling out of control. And so...

to fall into difficult situations, meeting up with law enforcement, law enforcement not necessarily reading you right or reading you well, and it resulting in something that's much bigger or spiraling out of control. And so...

A lot of times when I was working at the forensic hospital in Massachusetts, these individuals would have mental illness but also have this diagnosis of autism and also a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury. That was another really common thing that I would see in individuals.

A lot of times when I was working at the forensic hospital in Massachusetts, these individuals would have mental illness but also have this diagnosis of autism and also a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury. That was another really common thing that I would see in individuals.

A lot of times when I was working at the forensic hospital in Massachusetts, these individuals would have mental illness but also have this diagnosis of autism and also a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury. That was another really common thing that I would see in individuals.

And so we did a research study because one of the biggest issues that I found in forensic hospitals and working in the incarcerated, in a system with patients who are incarcerated, is that it's very difficult to get... standing doses of treatment for them.

And so we did a research study because one of the biggest issues that I found in forensic hospitals and working in the incarcerated, in a system with patients who are incarcerated, is that it's very difficult to get... standing doses of treatment for them.