Brain Politics
The Duke of the Brain (The Emotional System): A First Meeting
The emotional system is the Duke of the brain. It is ancient, powerful and makes us think, feel and want to act in certain ways. It also makes us see everything through the emotional lens we are feeling. It makes us recall information linked to the emotion and our future seems to be imbued with the emotion we are feeling. We look at the evolutionary function of emotions and some life lessons we can draw from them.
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Meet Your Host Dr. Rajiv Parinja
Dr. Rajiv Parinja is a psychiatrist with Mercy health in Toledo. He started his career in England where he trained in psychiatry as a resident of psychiatry and a fellow in General Adult Psychiatry. He subsequently did another residency at the Cleveland Clinic in psychiatry. He has worked as an inpatient psychiatrist at Cleveland Clinic and at Mercy Health in Toledo.
He has an interest in understanding how our brains work from an evolutionary standpoint and applying that knowledge to improving the wellbeing of individuals and societies. He has developed a program called ENaBLe ME which stands for Evolution and Neuroscience Based Learning and Mindfulness Exercises which helps people understand how their brains work and apply that knowledge to improve wellbeing.
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