CNN’s Jen Christensen reports on a study that suggested that trans-cranial electrical stimulation of the prefrontal cortex might inhibit someone’s intention to commit a violent act.  I comment on the intriguing implications and the practical problems that would be involved.  My colleague Dr. Jesse Viner, founder and medical director of Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Center is also featured in the piece. In addition to psychoanalytically informed individual, family and group psychotherapy, Yellowbrick offers its patients interventions that target the brain, known as neuromodulation.  Dr. Viner says, “The larger point of this study may be how it shows the real possibilities of more direct brain interventions.”

My take is that the classic bio-psycho-social model is still very much the way to approach facilitating change in humans, whether it’s treating psychiatric patients, addressing the psychology of business impasses or promoting social change.  Read the story here.