Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-1044
ISSN: 2167-1044
Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Hyperstimulation of the Limbic Anti-Stress Barrier in the Genesis of Emotional Disorders
Author(s): Bohdan Wasilewski*
Stress-inducing stimuli, both those originating from the transmission of the current situation from the sense organs and those generated vicariously by the neocortex, activate the emotional protective barrier, shifting the analytical executive decision-making of thinking from the neocortex to the old one, focused on symbolic-impulsive thinking. This is associated with the dominant use of deeply implanted personality patterns from the period of individual emotional maturation and atavistic defensive reactions... View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2167-1044.25.14.565