Episode 8, Abha Rajbhandari - The Brain Doesn't Work in the Isolation with the Body

Conversation include brain-body connection and vagus nerve, stress and fear, Polyvagal theory, spirituality and how far has the research evolved in trying to understand body-brain relationship and what does still remain unknown.

Dr. Rajbhandari is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Rajbhandari obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the role of the amygdala sub-regions in regulation of stress and sensorimotor gating. Dr. Rajbhandari did her postdoctoral work at the University of California-Los Angeles, where she studied fear and stress regulation via the amygdala. At the Icahn School of Medicine. Dr. Rajbhandari’s team focuses on the brain, vagus nerve and body mechanisms of fear, stress, and anxiety to understand how the body communicates with the brain in regulating these functions.

Dr. Rajbhandari has also been a lifetime yoga practitioner since her childhood in Nepal. She teaches Yoga classes in her spare time and also the spiritual aspects of Yoga.

Find Abha on Instagram - @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish 

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Episode created by Živilė Virkutytė

Editing by Donatas Kaikaris

Music by Irmantas Kašėta

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