I just discovered the news item about 5 Minnesota Senate Republicans who introduced a bill this month seeking to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) as a mental illness. This is not a new idea, I think, and it targets Democrats as having the syndrome. There’s a big Wikipedia article about the history of the origin of it.
It reminded me of a Dr. Henry Nasrallah’s editorials about “neuropolitics” a term he used in an effort to understand how much politics can affect the human brain. He published a series of 3 articles in the journal Current Psychiatry. The one published in the October 2018 issue is entitled “Neuropolitics in the age of extremism: Brain regions involved in hatred.”
Dr. Nasrallah is a neuropsychiatrist who has an entertaining and thought-provoking writing style. I met him briefly when I was interviewing for psychiatry residency at the University of Cincinnati.
The political situation now is difficult and it makes me wonder even more if there is a problem with the human brain when it comes to politics.
Dr. Nasrallah article 1
Dr. Nasrallah article 2
Dr. Nasrallah article 3
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