MAY 2025 Guest Speaker: Siegfried Othmer
Siegfried Othmer: 2025 Guest Lecture Series | MAY
TITLE: Self-Regulatory Competence: Our foundational skill.
Our healthcare crisis is rooted in a mental health crisis, which in turn is traceable largely to early development. Our children grow up under conditions of âcivilizational stressâ that fundamentally reorients neural development. Resulting self-regulatory deficits precipitate a cascade into progressive dysregulation that eventuates in chronic medical disease. Restoring self-regulatory competence by way of endogenous neuromodulation is proving to be a potent countermeasure. This is best done by recapitulating the developmental hierarchy, which also sets the stage for a move from a remediation model to a prevention model in early childhood. Prevention is function-focused rather than deficit-focused. Hence it should be universally available, by analogy to vaccines. Accordingly, as there is no specific therapeutic objective, this early intervention should qualify for the wellness designation of the FDA.
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