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New neuroscience-based technologies aim to improve decisionmaking under pressure. But solving systemic problems will take a lot more than that.

Contessa Brewer joins ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to report on how VR technology is being used to train police officers.

Strategies for reforming policing have dominated the public discourse for the last year, from calls to change how incidents are investigated, to restrictions on how officers use crowd control weapons. In Washington, neuroscientist Dr. Jonathan Page believes the key could be in our brains.

TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jonathan Page, president and co-founder of Preflex First, about cognitive neuroscience and how it helps law enforcement. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

A police academy in Washington state has incorporated what’s known as “brain training” as a part of its curriculum. Its creator calls it a paradigm shift for police. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee has the details.