Why the Brain Is Never Really “At Rest”

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Here are the links to the papers mentioned:Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorderRen et. al.https://psychscene.co/4vQKgmc The brain’s action-mode networkDosenbach et. al.https://psychscene.co/4ts1pRr Access mentioned courses here:Advanced Psychiatric Formulation and Strategic Management:https://psychscene.co/4sG214L ADHD Masterclass:https://psychscene.co/4sJ1GOS In this video, Dr Sanil Rege examines the Action Mode Network as a unifying clinical framework for understanding how the brain regulates action, arousal, body state, and cognition.He explores the counterbalance between action mode and default mode, showing how impaired initiation, hyperarousal, poor state shifting, and social withdrawal may be better understood as disturbances of mode regulation rather than isolated symptom categories.This session provides clinicians with a neurobiological framework for refining psychiatric formulation through the lens of state regulation, brain–body integration, and network-based clinical reasoning.Chapters:01:32 – Introducing the Action Mode Network03:17 – The Brain as an Organ Organised for Action05:48 – Action Mode vs Default Mode07:18 – Psychiatric Syndromes as Mode-Switching Disorders09:48– Overcoming the False Dichotomy of Mind and Body12:25 – The PACES Model in Clinical Formulation14:48 – Translating State Regulation into Clinical Practice#ActionModeNetwork #Psychiatry #Brain

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