Each month The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation hosts a Meet the Scientist Webinar featuring a researcher discussing the latest findings related to mental illness. In January, 2025, the Foundation featured Dr. Christopher T. Sege of the Medical University of South Carolina.
Description: Heightened activation of a fight-or-flight system in response to stress or perceived threat is a key factor that maintains anxiety, trauma-related, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. While current treatments aim to reduce symptoms by lowering fight/ flight responding, available approaches can be challenging and have variable benefit – suggesting a need for more effective ways to achieve fight/ flight reduction. With this in mind, Dr. Sege’s presentation will discuss advancements in understanding the neurobiology of fight-or-flight responding and ability to directly target that neurobiology using noninvasive brain stimulation. He will present data demonstrating how innate neurobiological threat or stress responses can be measured with neuroimaging tools and modified with neuromodulation technologies. When discussing modification, Dr. Sege will focus on two especially promising technologies – transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial focused ultrasound. He will also discuss how the use of these technologies can lead to developing new treatments for individuals with anxiety and related concerns.
Learn more at https://bbrfoundation.org/event/fulfilling-promise-noninvasive-brain-stimulation-precision-medicine-tool
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