1. Emotional Brain Medicine
Session 4: Survival Circuits
Igor Mitrovic, MD
Professor of Physiology, UCSF
Laurel Mellin, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF

2. SESSION 4 OBJECTIVES
• Define core terms in neuronal circuit reconsolidation
and neuroplasticity in favor of a homeostatic set point.
• Identify allostatic circuits based on:
• Brain area encoded
• Generalization vs. association
• Chronology: primary or secondary
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Explain long term potentiation and the neurophysiology
of encoding of allostatic circuits.
• Use the Cycle Tool.