Dr. Sanil Rege is a Consultant Psychiatrist and founder of Psych Scene, a platform to enhance psychiatry education and Vita Healthcare, providing high-quality mental health care services to the public. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). His clinical and research interests include psychosis, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders, and personality disorders.
Take-Home Points:
• In emotional over-modulation, the frontal lobe has a significant inhibitory effect on the limbic mood area - the person presents with emotional numbing. In emotional under modulation, the opposite happens with the frontal lobe having a decreased inhibitory effect on the limbic system resulting in emotional dysregulation, anxiety, hypervigilance.
• The aim of PTSD treatments is to reach the process of habituation and extinction.
• It is vital to consider which pathways of the brain are affected in the Parkinsonian mechanism because many patients will self-medicate with smoking.
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