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Lynn L. West, PhDc, BCETS, LCPC
New Findings In Neuroscience
Lynn L. West & Associates, LLC

New Findings In Neuroscience

According to recent groundbreaking neuroscience research, neuropsychiatric disorders are evidenced through symptoms of brain cell syndromes involving the whole brain, versus diseases that are geographically linked to certain parts of the brain. According to Elkhonen Goldberg, PhD, ABPN (2018), the nature of neurological impairment is determined by the underlying neuroanatomy, with no focal specificity and no clearly distinct boundaries between areas. New evidence shows that connectivity among brain areas among large scale networks throughout the whole brain interact to support brain activity in completing tasks.

The importance of understanding the interactive network concept of brain connectivity, as contrasted with the modular brain area theory, is that the new research offers a much broader understanding of symptoms and generativity that includes the whole brain in context. This has significant diagnostic and treatment implications for all syndromes that are now characterized in much more limited terms. For instance, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is characterized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition, a book of the American Psychiatric Association, as a problem of the Frontal Cortext. Mental health treatment is psychostimulent medication designed to modulate certain neurotransmitters involved in circuits that extend to the Frontal Cortex. Psychiatric medication is prescribed to ameliorate the symptoms of signaling interference or inconsistency of attentional focus on the brain pathways that extend from specific pathways in the brain to the Pre Frontal Cortext. Psychiatrists do not have access to or use drugs that are prescribed by medical physicians for patients treated on a medical unit for a medically related injury that involves the head. Medical physicians prescribe completely different drugs for injuries involving or affecting the brain than mental health psychiatrist use.

Due to the current isolation and boundaries that exist between individual professions, the intractable ADHD symptoms currently observed in many patients being treated under mental health protocols, could now have the opportunity to try other medications currently used on medical units to treat their relative symptoms, without having to be admitted to a medical unit with a medically relevant injury.

Most people do not realize that this boundary exists between mental health and medicine. New findings in neuroscience is blowing open the possibilities for diagnosis and treatment in the future that do not exist today.

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