Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Hippocampus, The Prefrontal Cortex And The Basal Ganglia: Forgotten Child Syndrome

Could you "forget" your child in the car? If your answer is "hell, no, and anyone who does that is a monster," I invite you to read the following articles. You may find yourself thinking differently about this complex and scary subject. I've come to believe that under the right circumstances, or more accurately, with a tragic combination of the wrong circumstances, it could happen to anyone.

In 2010, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, for his story "Fatal Distraction."

CNN legal analyst Sonny Hostin shares details about the time she forgot her child in the car.

Neuroscientist David Diamond is a frequent court consultant in Forgotten Child Syndrome cases; he provides some scientific basis for how a good person could do such a terrible thing.

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