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On Thursday, January 22, 2015, CLBB Senior Fellow in Law & Applied Neuroscience Amanda Pustilnik presented the Psychiatry Grand Rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Pustilnik reviewed her research at the intersection of pain and the law in a talk titled “Imaging Brains, Changing Minds: How Pain Neuroimaging Can Help Transform the Law.”
The Grand Rounds took place in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital. Watch complete video from the event below.
Amanda Pustilnik, JD is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and Law & Neuroscience. She is also the 2014-2015 Senior Fellow in Law & Applied Neuroscience, part of the Joint Venture in Law & Neuroscience between CLBB and the Petrie-Flom Center of Harvard Law School. Pustilnik has convened a national conference and produced two seminal papers on pain and the law, “Painful Disparities, Painful Realities” and “Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law”.
Pustilnik is a member of the CLBB Pain & Suffering working group and will present at the working group’s Pain & Suffering Symposium at Harvard Medical School on February 5.
Read Professor Pustilnik’s full bio here.
