Dr Guy Sutton will be visiting St George’s for Brain Awareness week for the fifth year running for an event mid-October; Dr Sutton’s presentation skills are inspiring and engaging with up-to-date information and interactive activities.
By popular request Dr Sutton will be offering a FREE twilight workshop for the general public on Thursday 13 October from 17:30 to 19:30 in St George’s new Auditorium in Luxembourg-Hamm. The theme this year is ‘The Criminal Brain’.
Are criminals ‘born’ or ‘made’? Is there a ‘hard-wiring’ problem in the brain of a violent offender or is criminal behaviour linked to biochemical imbalances? Do some individuals have a genetic predisposition to crime? Or perhaps criminality is more likely influenced by social factors such as maternal neglect, peer pressure or learning from a family member? Recent research suggest that the social world influences the activity of our genes, in turn affecting brain function and neuroscientists are now beginning to explore how the brain might be linked to certain behaviours linked with criminality. In this lecture we will consider the above questions, providing examples of how changes in brain structure and function may be linked to deviant behaviour and addressing the crucial relationship between the social world and our individual makeup.
For more information or to book your seat, please contact Ms Moody, St George’s Psychology Teacher, by email: j.moody@st-georges.lu
Each year Dr Sutton’s visits inspire St George’s psychology students to explore more about general health, genetics and neuroscience. They are introduced to the theory and practice of forensic and clinical psychology, criminal profiling and offender populations, schizophrenia and informed about the latest ground-breaking research in neurobiology.
