Santa Rosa - Taking readers on a years-long journey as he attempts to understand why eight Palo Alto teenagers ended their own lives in the same manner, science journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz asks whether people can consciously or unconsciously spread infectious ideas and behaviors. In conversations with behavioral experts, Kravetz considers how behaviors such as eating disorders, emotional burnout, hysteria, fear, violence, suicide, and even a bizarre case of impulsive uncontrollable laughter can become contagious and be transmitted throughout a community.
Lee Daniel Kravetz will moderate a panel of mental health professionals featuring Katie Swan from Buckelew Programs, teen and transitional age youth expert Michael Kessler, and sports writer and suicide prevention hotline volunteer Bob Padecky.