Brain Health Series

The foundation guide. Explains the Default Mode Network, Central Executive Network, and Salience Network. Every patient receives this first.

The permission layer. Covers HERO traits, NMDA/AMPA permission system, reward prediction error, affective temperament, and WILD 5 Wellness.

Covers the Salience Network’s role in threat detection, GAD, panic disorder, social anxiety, CBT, exposure therapy, and medication options.

Covers the Default Mode Network in depression, blunted reward prediction, anhedonia, behavioral activation, and the Tune vs. Train principle.

Covers Focus Network switching reliability, high-interest vs. routine task activation, stimulant medications, exercise, and external structure strategies.

Covers Salience Network instability, mood stabilizers, circadian anchoring, and the SAMe and St. John’s Wort contraindication warning.

Covers the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical loop, why reassurance doesn’t work, exposure and response prevention, and serotonin/glutamate in OCD.

Covers the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical loop, why reassurance doesn’t work, exposure and response prevention, and serotonin/glutamate in OCD.

Covers chronotype, delayed sleep phase, sleep architecture, CBT-I, sleep fragmentation, and the eye movement sleep onset protocol.

Covers the physiology of CO2 and breathing, resonance breathing and heart rate variability, the physiological sigh, and practical breathing protocols.

The complete treatment roadmap. Covers the three biological systems, Tune/Train/Reset framework, daily structure, nutrition, supplements, and setbacks.