A jury is to determine whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She was being treated for postpartum mental health issues when she killed the children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old. Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan is presiding over the jury trial, which began on July 27 and is expected to last six to eight weeks.
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Psychiatrist Donald Condie testified as a defense witness in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial today (Tuesday, August 18, day 15). He testified to his expertise in treating psychotic and mood disorders, specifically focusing on postpartum psychiatric phenomena. Condie did not meet with Clancy. He reviewed Clancy's medical records, including those from Dr. Jennifer Tufts, Rebecca Jollotta, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and McLean Hospital. Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington questioned him about Clancy’s deteriorating mental state following the birth of her third child, Callan, in 2022. Condie said that while Clancy did not report auditory hallucinations to her primary providers (Tufts or Jollotta) until January 24, 2023, the medical records indicated symptoms consistent with postpartum psychosis, such as feeling disconnected from reality. 07:32 "I know about the case in general, but I don't know anyone personally." "Now you have never met her. Is that correct?" "That's correct." "You've never talked to her, right?" "Never have." "You've never evaluated her for what's called criminal responsibility. Is that correct?" "That's correct. I have not." 11:28 Tufts' records: "Can you describe them for us, please?" "They are somewhat sparse, and there are many check boxes in the records, but not a great deal of sentences that describe what was done during sessions." 17:05 "Dr. Tufts reported that Lindsay's psychiatric condition was generally deteriorating. That's a checkbox on one of the forms that her records." 21:30 "Do you remember looking at the medical records, and that on November 27th of 2022, the nurse practitioner Julie Paul reported that Lindsay stated that she was was disassociated; that she was not in touch with reality. Do you remember that?" "Yes." "And what is that a symptomology? Is that a symptom of psychosis to be disassociated and not in touch with reality?" "It certainly can be. Dissociation an mean that people feel like things around them are not real." 26:36 "Tell the jury what serotonin means and what happens when you take an SSRI, please." "Okay, serotonin in this sense is a neurotransmitter. The brain is a relatively complicated place. It has about 86 billion nerve cells. They've got 1000s of connections to each other, but they're not like the wires in your house where you put two pieces of wire together, twist the copper, and then put a nut on that." "Nerves don't touch; they go close to each other, but there's a space between them, and that's called the synaptic cleft. One nerve secretes a neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft, and it moves over to the next nerve in line where there's a receptor, serotonin does that in the synaptic cleft, but it's also taken back up by the nerve that secreted it as a so it's reuptaked. So a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor slows down the reuptake of serotonin, prolonging its activity in the synaptic cleft, which causes the next nerve in line to be activated. I'm sorry that it's so complicated. So that's what serotonin is doing, and that's what a reuptake inhibitor does." 29:22 "what what effect does it have on a woman that has a baby?" "Well, one of the other hormones that goes up is prolactin. So after the woman gives birth, prolactin promotes lactation, and it's a hormone that increases so that the mother can then breastfeed. These hormones are also seen in all mammals that feed their young through producing milk. So it's a very common mammalian thing to do, but other kinds of things can happen to." 37:04 "There were a lot of records references to exercise, and exercise can be a very useful thing. " "Sure, that's one of the things that a woman in postpartum may very well be prescribed to do by a doctor like or a nurse practitioner like Gelata, right?" "I believe that nurse practitioner Julie Paul recommended a long run at one point." 39:25 Rhode Island program: "The records stated that they thought that she was having complications from medications more than she was suffering from postpartum issues, and therefore was not a good candidate for their program." 44:01 "Did she, meaning Lindsay, to your knowledge, in the medical records dealing with these providers, complain about the effect that Seroquel had on her?" "Yes." 48:58 cross-exam by Assistant State Attorney Shanan Buckingham 56:30 "So, if a person takes seven pills over one week period at 25 milligrams, how do they increase the dose without more pills missing from the bottle?" "Well, I believe if you took three or four pills for a few days of 25, then you still would have enough pills to take two 25s and increase the dose to 50." seroquel 59:38 "And you're familiar that is a fairly common dosage, a low dose to prescribe, to address some sleep issues?" "It is yes." 01:04:23 "And the only time she's ever said that she heard this voice was on January 24th of 2023. Is that fair to say?" "Correct." 01:04:36 re-direct from Reddington