Yale School of Medicine

Our guest today is Dr. James Kimmel.

He is a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and an expert on revenge.

His new book, The Science of Revenge, just out this month.

I feel can revolutionize our approach to violence and retribution and the toxicity that permeates our society.

And that would be Pollyannish if I didn't have an answer for how to treat.

But if we now know that addiction is the problem, we can use addiction strategies to treat and maybe we can have an answer today for that.

And on another note, you're a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, an interesting position for a lawyer and kind of unique.

But you talk a lot to medical students and possibly medical residents, doctors in training.

Katrina Fury, a Yale-trained, board-certified reproductive psychiatrist and the founder of Sound Psychiatry and Repro Psych Academy.

She's a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a consulting psychiatrist for Connecticut's Access Mental Health for Moms program, where she advises clinicians caring for pregnant and postpartum women across the state.

All right.

I'm here with Dr. Katrina Fury.

And Matt's just going to take a nice deep breath.

But I tried to look into, like, what's the physiology behind that? Like, why is that such a calming thing? So I came across an article on the Yale School of Medicine that seems way better than anything else I could find a source on it, you know, not Wikipedia.

Yale School of Medicine, they seem to know what they're talking about.

They talked about the idea that, like, where, like, that frazzled state, that fight-or-flight response is controlled by the vagus nerve in the bottom of your brain, and it kind of controls your sympathetic nerves.

nervous system.

With us to talk about that is Dr. Richa Sharma.

Dr. Sharma is an associate professor of neurology at the Yale School of Medicine and a vascular neurologist with Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven.

Dr. Sharma, thank you so much for joining us today.

Good morning.

Well, thank you so much for sharing that with us.

Perfect timing.

Dr. Richa Sharma, who's the Associate Professor of Neurology at the Yale School of Medicine and a vascular neurologist with Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital.

Thank you so much, Dr. Sharma, for being with us today.

Her name is Dr. Christine Cha.

She's a clinical professor, clinical psychologist at Yale Medical School.

And I stumbled onto her, and I'm like, oh, my gosh.

And I even sent her an email.

Her name is Dr. Christine Cha.

She's a clinical psychologist at Yale Medical School.

And I stumbled onto her, and I'm like, oh, my gosh.

And I even sent her an email.

So I come home from, you know, running around.

I think that was a Yale Medical School interview.

I end up going to Dartmouth.

Dad had fluid two thirds of the way up in his lung fields.