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Therapy and the Neural Network Model

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Problems regulating the physiological responses of anxiety are fundamentally caused and regulated by a heavily overlapping set of integrated neural networks that are responsible for the dysregulation of thoughts found in depression . Both disorders contain a large number of the same integrated networks whose operation are responsible for the large number of shared features of both these and other disorders of emotional regulation . These shared, or common core, aspects of these disorders represent legitimate therapeutic targets whose remediation should produce significant benefit for clients.

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Wasserman, T., Wasserman, L.D. (2019). Anxiety and Depression. In: Therapy and the Neural Network Model. Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26921-0_10

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