Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: April 15, 2026

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Margherio Family Conference Center, 1st Floor

Speaker: Vaibhav A. Diwadkar, PhD -  Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine

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TOPIC: "The Age of Abundance: A Challenge for Human Regulatory Systems that Evolved Under Scarcity"

Objectives:   

1. Identify what human regulatory systems are, and what did they evolved for? 

2.  Discuss how a predictive processing framework can explain the way in which biological systems deal with Scarcity and Abundance?

3.  Assess what the brain's exploitation and exploration modes are and how does Abundance impacts these?