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Right now, we are fighting for the future of our children’s mental health. In this enlightening talk, Neuroscientist Jillian Lee Wiggins discusses the urgent need to address children's mental health issues and proposes a revolutionary approach using brain imaging technology. She highlights the challenges in current treatment methods and shares insights from her ground-breaking research.
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Jillian Lee Wiggins, PhD, was born in Chicago to immigrant Jamaican Chinese parents. She fell in love with psychology and neuroscience while an undergraduate and moved on to complete her PhD in developmental psychology at University of Michigan and her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She is now the Director of the Translational Emotion Neuroscience and Development Lab (TEND Lab) and an Associate Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University. Her two children (ages 3 and 6) often attend her class as “demo kids”. tendlab.sdsu.edu This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx