Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

medical education research, and teaching, residence, and medical students.

All right, welcome back to the podcast. Today I am joined with Dr. Kevin Ing,

who is a psychiatrist resident at UC Irvine, and Adam Berecchi.

I'm saying that right.

Berecchi close.

Berecchi close, so close.

This is an intentional joke we do every time.

Yeah, it's a CK.

Adam Berecchi is a research assistant in my sort of team associate.

He just finishes master's in ethics and is finishing out his fourth year of medical school.

And Dr. Kevin Ing is a close friend.

I don't know, been on a lot of walks together, done a lot of life together during his medical school,

and now he's out here at UC Irvine, so we're visiting him.

And we have put together an episode on the polyvagal theory.

And it was once thought that there was just two systems, a sympathetic nervous system,

and a parasympathetic nervous system, and that it was kind of like, you know,

your parasympathetic is rest and relaxation in your sympathetic system is fight and flight.

But now we kind of know it's three systems.

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