Author: Dr. Robert Cieri
Often the problems of a psychic nature are considered as diseases from which it is impossible take sides with the rooms, a burden to carry on my back for life. In fact you can change through psychotherapy. To this proposito ho trovato molto interessante proporvi un articolo pubblicato su La Stampa il 23 settembre 2009: “La psicoterapia cambia il cervello”, di A. Rossi. L’articolo riporta una scoperta importante, evidenziata grazie all’utilizzo di tecniche di “neuroimaging”, come la risonanza magnetica funzionale, da cui risulta che la psicoterapia รจ in grado di modificare l’attivazione di aree specifiche cerebrali, permettendo all’individuo di gestire meglio le emozioni negative: dall’ansia alle paure. Si tratta di evidenze che nascono dalle scoperte del Premio Nobel Eric Kandel, famoso per aver dimostrato l’insorgere di some modifications on gene expression. An example is that of a man who is afraid of spiders, what technically is called arachnophobia. Putting a spider in front of the photograph of her brain shows that part - the right lateral prefrontal area - is active, stimulated by fear. Some time later the same individual has had no reaction. Watch a spider, but reacts in a "normal", as one that is not attacked by pulses of terror. The brain has changed: the neuronal structure has changed and all without using any medication. Only with the psychotherapy. At this point, we could say that psychotherapy, in addition to the reality and how this is perceived, silently and invisibly on the neural structures that underlie behavior and emotional reactions.
