Hey what's up! Welcome to In The Fick. I'm Mariano Hosa. It's Friday.

You guys, I'm all alone in the studio because my carito co-host, Julio Ricardo Barrela,

is doing some self-care by taking a vacation with his family and I think

looking at lots of water. He's going to be back next week though and so today

we're going to do something a little different. It's going to be me talking

with an expert and we're going to be me talking with an expert.

And we're going to be talking about the brain.

And what happens when the brain is exposed to extreme circumstances?

Now, I know that you're probably imagining what we're going to talk about.

We hear it in the thick have been covering what the Trump administration has been doing in terms

of immigrants and immigration, how this is affecting the entire community, and very specifically most recently,

the Zero Tolerance Policy, which has really captivated a lot of people.

And I've been covering this issue now for decades, detention, separation, the ripping apart

of migrant families.

And I've seen, and I know because I've reported on what the emotional impact of these policies, what it looks like.

So today we're going to talk a little bit about the science behind that emotional impact and the impact on our brain.

So to do this, I called up a our brain. So to do this I called up a badass brain expert. Yep, that's what we name her. Her name is Dr. Gina Poe. She's based in LA. She's a neuroscientist and a professor at

UCLA. Hey, Dr. Poe. Gina, welcome to In The Thick.

Hi, it's great to be here. Thank you, Maria.

How do you like being called a badass brain expert?

I love it.

All right, so your research actually specializes on sleep.

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