Off-Label
Off Label is an AI-hosted podcast by Dr. Steve Rondeau’s digital twin. It explores the limits of DSM-based diagnosis and the promise of brain-informed psychiatry. From mislabeled symptoms to overlooked patterns, we examine how mental health can evolve beyond outdated frameworks toward something more precise, personal, and real.
Off-Label
Why Kids Lie: A Brain-Based Look at Impulsivity and Truth-Telling
Description:
What’s really happening in the brain when a child lies compulsively—and could it be more than just “bad behavior”?
In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, we explore how quantitative EEG (qEEG) can help decode the neurobiological roots of impulsivity and compulsive lying in children. Drawing from a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau and insights from the Stanford University Open Virtual Assistant Lab, this episode dives into how specific brain patterns—particularly those linked to disinhibition, executive function, and emotional regulation—can explain deceptive behavior in ways that go far beyond traditional psychiatric labels.
We’ll also look at how these findings could reshape interventions in clinical, educational, and even legal settings, offering a more nuanced and data-informed understanding of behavior often miscategorized or punished without deeper context.
If you’re a clinician, educator, researcher, or parent seeking a more grounded approach to child behavior, this episode challenges assumptions and reveals how brain science can inform both empathy and strategy.