Matthew Taylor
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407 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2011
last heard Nov 2011
Matthew Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The scans show that his limbic system is impaired.
His brain is demonstrably different to that of normally adjusted people.
But I put a question to Kiel that was starting to bug me.
So serial killers' brains are different, and that's part of why they do what they do.
Kiel admits that brain scanning alone doesn't allow us to understand the complex set of factors that create antisocial behavior or serial killers.
At most, evidence like his is being used to get people off death row and into lifetime prison sentences.
But he thinks neuroscience could help us to deal with these symptoms earlier, in children.
And that brings us back to the south of England, where schoolteacher Tara is working with neuroscientists to understand the boy I've called Stephen.
Tara is convinced that understanding the failings of Stephen's brain can help us really get to grips with his naughty, sometimes destructive behaviour and find ways to help him change it.
What's that one?
And how has neuroscience, and particularly the ability to scan the brains of children or adults who have this problem, how has that changed our understanding?
The idea that these new techniques will be able to help Stephen stay out of trouble is inspiring, but it's still only a theory.
Like so much at the frontiers of neuroscience, the evidence is far from being conclusive, given that the more far-fetched fantasies, like scanning children's brains early to identify their frailties, look premature or even dangerous.
But when you hear the words of Jeff, the school head, with over 20 years' experience, you get a sense of how neuroscience might help us tackle problems which seemed up till now intractable.
He wishes the science had come earlier.
He's seen a generation of pupils, many of whom he now believes should have had the same diagnosis as Stephen, misunderstood and failed by the system.
Adults out there now in prison or causing damage to society simply because the neuroscience wasn't there to enable us to diagnose them properly before.
Absolutely, yes, completely.
I don't know whether neuroscience will make it into the courtroom.
whether Hans Marksovich's lie detector will prove as unreliable as those that went before.
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