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Change Your Brain Every Day

Extremists: What do their Brains Look Like?

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Research using brain scans has shown us that people with extreme views tend to share similar aspects of brain function. In this first episode of a series on judgement, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe how the brain's frontal lobes play a huge role in determining where people may fall on the political spectrum, and how they may even help explain the existence of such negative social phenomena as racism and mob mentality.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way Podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.

0:19.0

The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aaman Clinics, where we have been transforming

0:25.5

lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your

0:32.0

brain.

0:32.6

For more information,

0:34.1

visit Aaman Clinics.com.

0:35.9

The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD

0:39.6

where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.

0:45.3

To learn more, go to brainMD.com.

0:48.0

Hey everybody, we are so excited to be with you.

0:56.0

We're gonna call this week judgment week and we often tease Tanna that I'm here with the judge.

1:04.8

The jury and the executioner.

1:07.9

But do you know that judging other people

1:12.1

in judging situations is actually a brain function.

1:16.2

And there's a new study out on people who are radical politically either to the left or to the right.

1:27.6

And when they did cognitive testing, they found that the people who were most left and most right were cognitively rigid.

1:39.2

What we want you to do is just think in your head where you are judgmental and has that negatively

1:50.0

impacted you in your life or have you felt I certainly have judged by others I grew

1:56.6

up with five sisters and what kind of impact has that left on you in light.

2:03.1

I just want to ask you about what you said about political people being extremes because I know many

2:09.3

people, including myself, who were more extreme when they're younger but become more moderate in middle of the road when they're older.

2:16.3

Now is that a brain function or is that life experience that makes that happen?

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