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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140607:11:48:00

nbc legal analyst lisa bloom is joining us now. good morning. should the young girls are charged as adults. they're 12 years old. they're not even teenagers. >> i think it's appalling. the united states is the only developed country that charges kids this young as adults. you can't even legally sign a contract or drink or drive. we expect them to understand miranda rights, waive the rights and talk to police and give information if tried as adults, could lock them up for the rest of their lives. >> what about premeditation though? if this is something that's planned, they have the cognizant awareness to say, we're going to do something pretty awful. >> well, you know, that's an open question. there's now a mountain of psychological evidence that says that brain functioning and cognitive development is not fully formed until about the age of 25. most of us who have 12-year-olds around know that 12-year-olds are not able to appreciate the long-term consequences of their

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the new study shows a steep decline in memory for men who have more than 2 1/2 alcoholic drinks per day. now, heavy female drinkers, or females who drink a lot, also showed some problems with planning and focusing, but apparently not memory. so, if you're a woman, you can drink a lot and not lose your memory. surprisingly, a woman who abstained from alcohol completely showed the greatest loss of brain functioning. >> i can't focus or follow this story at all. i don't know why. >> seems unfair on many different levels. all right, this morning, "12 years a slave," one of the year's most celebrated films expected to be one of the most nominated when the motion picture academy reveals the best in show. "gravity," a sandra bullock space drama is expected to receive several nominations. "american hustle," great cast, great pair and also great costumes, another pre-oscar favorite. the best picture category can have anywhere from five to ten

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Sanjay Gupta MD-20130505-11:33:00

these psychopathests have reduction in the volume. and, also, when they contemplate making moral decisions like, shall i kill someone or not? that part of the brain is not as active as in normal people. >> you've done a terrific job of making the science accessible for people. i want to show a couple images that are important here and people should see these, again. you should read the book. take a look there, a scan of the brain, normal on the left and a murderer on the right. what are we looking at there? >> well, we're looking down on the brain. this is a pet scan, so, it's looking at brain functioning and the warm colors, the red and yellow indicate high gluicose metabolism or high brain functioning. and on the left with the normal control, you can see a lot of good functioning in the very frontal region of the brain. right at the top there. >> that orange, yellowish area.

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Sanjay Gupta MD-20130504-20:36:00

if you know some of the risk factors you describe in the book, is there something that can be done at that point to say, look, we know -- we have identified high risk people because we have objective evidence that this caused changes in the brain. what can we do as individuals or as a society? >> we can certainly do something to change things. in fact, one of the reasons for writing the anatomy of violence is i wanted to open up a new door to everyone. a new way of looking at violence and the causes of crime and violence. and the brain can change for the better with a better environment. so, for example, we enrich the environment of 3-year-old children by giving them better nutrition, more physical exercise and a cognitive stimulation for two years from age 3 to 5. that resulted in better brain functioning at age 11 and a 35% reduction in criminal offending at age 23. so it's not biology by itself.

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Sanjay Gupta MD-20130504-20:33:00

impairment, a volume deduction and poor functioning in a part of the brain called the amygdala, the seat of emotion. we have been finding on psychopathic offenders they have an 18% reduction in the volume in the amygdala. when they contemplate making moral decisions like should i kill someone or not, that part of the brain is just not as active as in normal people. >> you have done a terrific job making the science accessible for people. i want to show a couple of images that will be important. you should read the book. take a look there at a scan of the brain, a p.e.t. scan. normal on the left and a murderer on the right. what are we looking at there? >> we are looking down on the brain. this is a p.e.t. scan looking at brain functioning. the red and yellow indicate high glucose metabolism or high brain

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20121108:12:25:00

>> brian: we've introduced you to our next guest once before. you had a great reaction. a neurosurgeon. one day in 2008 when everything changed, he was driven into a coma by meningitis. his brain functioning and doctors believed he would not survive, but a miracle happened. he woke up from his coma claiming heaven exists and he has proof. he's sharing his story and a best selling book "proof of heaven." how do you know there is a heaven, doctor? welcome back. >> thank you. it's very good to be back. and it was shown to me in a very powerful way that ultrareality that many have described after near death experiences and then there was the proof that was offered up to me in who i saw in that realm. >> brian: and you are somebody who was not religious before, but certainly are now and you say first off, the headline would be there is a good. >> absolute -- god. >> absolutely.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120106:03:44:00

it seems like something she was using for own personal reflection, not something she would use to put out. and the sort of consternation this is creating is the sense that perhaps this is casey again getting out there in the public eye, thinking about herself, nowhere in this tape mentioning the daughter who is dead and not seeming to have any more contrition about this horrible, horrible set of affairs. >> it's odd to videotape something like this. i mean if it's for therapeutic purposes, you know, a lot of therapists talk about writing stuff down and keeping a journal. have you heard of suggestions that people keep a video journal? >> i have, particularly people that have difficulty expressing themselves in a written account. this is something that could happen. in fact, i'm -- the kinds of things i suspect may well be going on with casey in terms of her brain functioning, it might be useful for her to see herself in a reflective capacity in terms of how she expresses herself, how she perceived

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120106:01:44:00

if this is something as the attorney suggests, something used as part of the therapeutic process, it kind of had that feel to it for me. seemed like something she was using for personal reflection. the sort of consternation this is e creating is that this is casey again getting out there in the public eye, thinking about herself, nowhere in this tape mentioning the daughter who is dead and not seeming to have any more contrition about this horrible set of affairs. >> it's odd to videotape something like this. a lot of therapists talk about writing stuff down or keeping a journal. have you heard of suggestions of people keeping a video journal? >> i have. particularly people that have difficu difficulty expressing themselves on a written account. this is something that could happen. the kinds of things i suspect may well be going on with casey in terms of her brain functioning, it might be useful

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120106:06:44:00

nowhere in this tape mentioning the daughter who is dead and not seeming to have any more contrition about this horrible, horrible set of affairs. >> it's odd to videotape something like this. i mean if it's for therapeutic purposes, you know, a lot of therapists talk about writing stuff down and keeping a journal. have you heard of suggestions that people keep a video journal? >> i have, particularly people that have difficulty expressing themselves in a written account. this is something that could happen. in fact, i'm -- the kinds of things i suspect may well be going on with casey in terms of her brain functioning, it might be useful for her to see herself in a reflective capacity in terms of how she expresses herself, how she perceived herself, how other people perceive her. if she put this thing up, let's say she was somehow involved in this thing being distributed, the fact that she has no recollection, no understanding, didn't learn that people would be outraged and she doesn't seem contrite or concerned about the loss of her daughter.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110920:09:32:00

be a risk factor for hardening the arteries, and hardening the arteries as it affects the brain in turn can cause strokes, mini or otherwise, and lead to what's now being called vascular dementia. >> and the next step? understanding if reducing sugar by taking insulin could help with the symptoms of alzheimer's. >> the idea that insulin might actually improve brain functioning in people with alzheimer's disease really is a novel approach to treating the dementia of alzheimer's disease. >> reporter: research is already under way for insulin therapy for alzheimer's. jim avila, abc news, new york. >> and patients that are certainly excited to see this kind of research happening, one statistic they point out is about six times more is spent on aids research than alzheimer's. >> and there's a lot of fear that as the number of alzheimer's cases skyrocket that medicaid and medicare can't keep up. so this is really becoming a national problem. >> exactly. a group of religious leaders has returned to the u.s., confident that the american

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