Jeanne Boylan is more than a mere police sketch artist—she interviews key witnesses and draws suspects for some of the most high-profile criminal cases throughout the country.  Boylan has carved out a highly successful career by maintaining that the key to retrieving an accurate suspect image is not in how well a sketch is drawn, but in understanding how trauma effects eyewitness perception. Self-taught, she's refined her technique by studying the works of Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and other memory researchers. Her more memorable cases include the Unabomber investigation, the Oklahoma City bombing case and the Polly Klaas kidnapping—each of which are detailed, along with many of her other cases, in her memoir, Portraits of Guilt. TIME magazine recently named her one of 10 worldwide "Top Innovators in Law Enforcement" for her contribution to incorporating human psychology into the eyewitness interviewing process. Boylan currently divides her time between Boston and Scottsdale, Ariz.  

Larry Cahill, Ph.D. , is an assistant professor for the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, as well as the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine. Cahill’s research has focused on emotionally influenced memory, including clinical implications of his research for the prevention and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/neurobio/Faculty/Cahill/cahill.htm

Scott Hagwood is a four-time champion at the USA Memoriad, a national memory competition held annually in New York City. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1999, Hagwood began practicing his memorization skills to combat memory loss, a side effect caused by his radiation treatment. As a result of his memorization techniques, Hagwood has been able to commit to memory nine decks of cards in perfect order in an hour, more than 800 numbers in exact sequence in an hour and a shuffled deck of cards in two minutes even. Hagwood is currently writing a book, scheduled for publication in the fall of 2005. He lives in Fayetteville, N.C.

http://www.scotthagwood.com/pages/2/index.htm

Dr. Eric Kandel received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2000 for his groundbreaking research on memory. He is a professor at Columbia University, a Fred Kavli professor and director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences and a senior investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kandel’s groundbreaking research included his studies on the sea slug Aplysia, in which he showed the changes that take place in brain cells when memories are formed. He is a member of both the National Academy of Science and American Philosophical Society and a winner of the National Medal of Science. Kandel is also the co-founder of Memory Pharmaceuticals and the author of a number of books, including Memory: From Mind to Molecules and Principles of Neural Science.

Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D. , is a distinguished professor for the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in the University of California, Irvine. Loftus shook the field of memory research in the 1970s with controlled experiments in which she implanted detailed, vivid false memories in people. She is considered one of the foremost experts on eyewitness testimony and has testified in a number of high-profile criminal cases, most recently the child rape case brought against defrocked Catholic priest Paul Shanley. Loftus has written a number of books, including Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse, and Memory.

http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/

Esteban Lora , 22, joined the Army National Guard at 18, to serve his country and help pay for college.  His unit deployed to Iraq in spring 2003 soon began running patrols in Ramadi, part of the notorious Sunni triangle.  Lora emerged unscathed from an ambush that badly wounded several of his friends, but then in the fall of 2003, he was wounded by a roadside bomb and then sent home. While the scars on his hand and foot mostly healed, by summer 2004, he was deeply depressed, and a doctor at the Miami Veterans Administration Hospital diagnosed Lora with post-traumatic stress disorder.  With the help of medication and group and individual therapy, Lora has largely recovered from his ordeal and expects to formally leave the Guard in March. The son of immigrants from El Salvador, Lora lives with his family in Miami. He studies political science at Barry University, a Catholic college in Miami, and is planning a June wedding with his longtime fiancée.

James L. McGaugh, Ph.D. , is the founding director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and also research professor of Psychobiology and Pharmacology at the University of California, Irvine. McGaugh has studied memory for 50 years, focusing on the roles of stress hormones on memory and the role of brain systems in regulating learning and memory. He has written a number of books, including Memories and Emotion: the Making of Lasting Memory and Brain Organization and Memory: Cells, Systems and Circuits.

Dr. C. A. (Andy) Morgan is a Yale University psychiatrist and an expert analyst of forensic and medical subject matter for the Department of Defense. In the latter role, he works with the U.S. military to study the effects of stress on memory, focusing his research on trainees within the elite Special Operations units at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina. He also works with the clinical neurosciences division of the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In addition, Morgan has also served as an expert witness for the International Tribunal for War Crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Daniel Schacter, Ph.D. , is a psychology professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Harvard University and author of The Seven Sins of Memory. His studies focus on the various ways in which memory fails, including age-related memory problems, memory distortion and false memories. Schacter has written three books and published more than 200 scientific articles and chapters.

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dsweb/bio.html

Dr. Gary W. Small is professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Neuropsychiatric Institute and a Parlow-Solomon Professor on aging at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Small also serves as director of the UCLA Memory Clinic, the Memory and Aging Research Center, the Alzheimer's Disease Center Imaging Core, and the Center on Aging. His revolutionary work with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans revealing Alzheimer's lesions in the brain has led to a better understanding of the development of the disease. Small has also started one of the first memory clinics to help adults improve memory function through mental exercise and drug treatment and has spearheaded memory-training classes throughout Southern California. Small has authored more than 400 journal articles, book reviews, letters, editorials, books, book chapters, and abstracts, including The Memory Bible and The Memory Prescription.

Mieke Verfaellie, Ph.D. is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at Boston University, as well as a career research scientist at the Boston Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Verfaellie currently serves as the director of the Memory Disorders Research Center, which studies brain-injured adults afflicted with amnesia and other cognitive deficits.