Part 1 This excellent review (1) covers many of the brain regions we have discussed as being implicated in all the addictive behaviours. We have previously suggested also that these brain regions are connected in impaired decision making deficits and that these deficits in decision making are […]
This study/article (1) is a very interesting insight into how the traumatised brain may be “healed” as the result of EMDR therapy. “Post-traumatic conditions lead to derangement of memory and mood regulation possibly ending with a fear-driven response elicited by internal or external cues associated […]
PART 2 Following on from the role of memory system in PTSD and simialr psychopathologies (and disorders with which PTSD is also co-occurring) “We propose a similar mechanism may underlie the development and persistence of some PTSD symptoms The traumatic memories of PTSD patients can be deficient […]
This article (1) looks at how sufferers of PTSD have heightened activation of the emotional or fear based part of the brain, the amgydaloid part of the brain. We have suggested before in various blogs that this hyperactive amgydaloid region takes over from the more reasonable prefrontal cortex […]
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