Video Transcript
Let’s talk in conjunction, right? So obviously there’s some post traumatic stress involved in there, but something that we’re really finding over the last course of the years is how the effect of TBI has on top of post traumatic stress. So I know that you have, great education when it comes to that. So let’s kind of break down the understanding of post traumatic stress.
That’s going physiologically in your body and then traumatic brain injury is what’s happening as well. Cool. Yeah. Whenever we’re talking about PTSD, depression, anxiety, we’re really talking about an underactive prefrontal cortex and an overactive hindbrain in the case of post traumatic stress disorder and overactive amygdala.
So you are constantly in that fight, flight, or freeze. And your prefrontal cortex does not have the synaptic density, the neural density to calm that effect. That prefrontal cortex is involved in a lot of things, but one of the primary functions dealing with the hindbrain that circuitry is just to tell the rest of your brain to shut the hell up.
And. That’s one of the reasons we use transcranial magnetic stimulation in our treatment protocols is because of that effect. You’ve got that basically a, a wiring problem. And not only is that, you know, an issue because you’re constantly getting revved up and not able to stop it, it’s also very inflammatory.
So when just having that level of cortisol in your brain all the time is causing an extra inflammatory cascade.