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Judith G. Edersheim, JD, MD serves as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Founding Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. She is also a member of the HMS Center for Bioethics and practicing attending psychiatrist at MGH.
Her educational background includes:
- Brown University (undergraduate)
- Harvard Law School (JD)
- Harvard Medical School (MD)
After clerkship with Federal District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet, she practiced law at Boston's Hill and Barlow before completing psychiatry residency at Cambridge Hospital and forensic fellowship at MGH's Law and Psychiatry Service. Board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology with Forensic Psychiatry subspecialty, she holds Massachusetts medical and legal licenses.
Dr. Edersheim's research bridges neuroscience, law, and psychiatry to reform justice systems through empirical evidence. Her work focuses on neuroscientific applications in legal contexts including criminal responsibility, competency, and sentencing. She actively translates complex neuroscience concepts for judicial audiences through extensive courtroom lectures and Harvard institutional teaching.
As Founding Co-Director of the MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, she leads interdisciplinary initiatives integrating neurology, psychiatry, and legal scholarship. Her scholarly output includes peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and editorials on law-neuroscience intersections, alongside media appearances discussing real-world applications of neuroscientific evidence in legal proceedings.
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