Dr Fairchild speaks on Radio 4 about Conduct Disorder
What if sustained periods of adversity in childhood are associated with permanent structural changes in brain development?
The issue was debated this week on Radio 4 and Dr Graeme Fairchild took part in discussing children with conduct disorder. Dr Fairchild collaborated on the research showing that the brains of teenagers with conduct disorder look different to their peers.
You can listen to the debate and read the full transcripts on
the Radio 4 Inside Health page here
He is currently looking at genetic effects on the stress hormone system and recently published a paper on diffusion tensor imaging looking at the white matter connections in the brains of young offenders. This
was published in PloS One here