Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Finally, a really nice day here in Massachusetts.

Spring was on the horizon. Many thanks to all of you guys who, with the positive comments and suggestions, and again, very humbled by how many people are coming from different parts of

the globe for me uh to do neuropsychiavals in them was a truly humbling experience and i look

forward to this every week and as julie always points out and she's not here right now um

you know why don't you think during the week of what you're going to talk about? Just not how my mind works. It just keeps this very

organic. So today's topic, we're going to focus, I wanted to focus on emotion. Now, for those of you who follow this program, which is quite a few,

I'd never expected to be at the numbers that we are. So why is he talking about emotion when he

talks about cognitive therapy and emotions having no place in it? I'm not talking from a cognitive

behavioral or therapeutic perspective. I'm not talking from a cognitive behavioral or therapeutic perspective.

I'm talking from a human perspective. And I got a lot of texts over and emails and even just

conversations over the past week. And if I haven't gone back to you, please reach out to me.

I'll give you my contact information at the end of the show. I do my best to get back to people.

I think the current situation in Ukraine has certainly evoked a lot of emotion, a lot of fear,

a lot of angst, a lot of uncertainty. And we are emotional beings by nature. And emotion

is really regulated by a structure in the brain called the amygdala, along with other structures.

That's the primary part of the brain that deals with emotional regulation.

And is a great song, as many of you know, that I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, not as a crazy fanatic rock and roll fan, but just as an extreme admirer of his ability to put into words in an articulate yet simplistic way

what the human experience, a human condition is. So two of the tattoos I have in my arm,

have one of my left arm and one of my right arm, the words love and the word fear. And my perspective is I think those

are the two universal human emotions that guide all of our lives. And there was a line in a song

that he wrote called Leah. He even said he stole the title from Roy Orbison's original song,

Leah. But it's a great song about a man who's just really trying to find himself in his own

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