Highlights of the 2007 Weaver Institute Symposium on Neuroscience and the Law.
Learn about The Weaver Institute through the eyes of fellows Angela Chang, '08, and Denise Trauth, '08.
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Dr. Mossman joined the Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry as Administrative Director in June 2005. He also is Professor and Director of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry at the Wright State University's Boonshoft School of Medicine, where he has been a faculty member since 1993.
Dr. Mossman's academic activities include supervising psychiatry residents and teaching physicians, law students, and attorneys about mental disabilities and the law. Dr. Mossman also maintains a clinical practice, where he specializes in performing evaluations of adults and children for use in legal proceedings. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a councilor of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and past-president of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Over the past decade, Dr. Mossman has given more than 100 lectures and presentations to medical and legal audiences at local, regional, national, and international meetings. His continuing medical education lectures have dealt with issues in law and psychiatry, psychopharmacology, medical decision making, and medical ethics. His presentations to attorneys and judges have focused on mental disorders and mental health testimony. He has authored more than 90 articles and book chapters on legal and ethical issues, medical decision-making, statistics, and psychiatric treatment.
Dr. Mossman's current scholarly projects investigate prediction of sex offender recividism, prediction of competence restoration, accuracy of competence assessments, the impact of novel antipsychotics on competence restoration, mental health professionals' knowledge and perceptions concerning police interrogations, and how mental states affect adjudication of accused stalkers.
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