Frontal Fatigue, Mark D. Rego, MD
Frontal Fatigue, Mark D. Rego, MD
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Frontal Fatigue
The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness

Author: Mark D. Rego, MD

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/24/2022

Synopsis

If technology is making modern life easier, why are we suffering from more stress and mental illness?

In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who has practiced psychiatry in the community and taught at Yale for thirty years, explores why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology that was ostensibly created to improve our world. Using decades of experience and pioneering scientific research, Dr. Rego presents his innovative hypothesis of Frontal Fatigue, the background condition from which many of us now suffer. Frontal Fatigue exists when the unique pressures of modern life overwhelm the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brains that can make us susceptible to mental illness.

Frontal Fatigue examines: why mental illness is increasing in modern times; how the demands of our technology-centric lives place countless people at risk for mental illness and lacking in basic psychological well-being; and solutions for finding stability and peace within the noise of modern life. This astute perspective in the battle for our collective and individual peace of mind illustrates why mental illness is on the rise in these technologically advanced times and how we can act to adjust our lives in response.

About Mark D. Rego, MD

Mark D. Rego, MD, has practiced adult, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry for thirty years. He spent twenty-five years in community practice specializing in treating patients who required medication and addressing the special needs of those in hospitals, nursing homes, and group homes. Since he began his practice in 1989, he has taught psychiatric trainees at Yale New Haven Hospital. From 2004 until 2010, he spent time in Ayacucho, Peru, working with local groups to build a mental health center and continued years after to help supply them with needed medicines.

Dr. Rego presently consults in small community clinics that treat the underserved. As he is now physically disabled and can no longer see patients, Dr. Rego spends his time studying psychiatry and philosophy and writing about the ways mental illness affects people's lives. He lives with his wife in Milford, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on October 19, 2021

I found this book to be very accessible and easy to read. Due to the effects of technology and change in our modern life, I think all readers can find value in this book.......more

Goodreads review by Afzal on January 14, 2022

An interesting review of mental illness, modernity and medicine. This book explores the complex relationship between modern life and the mental health of people. What does modernity and technology do to us and do we realise the impact it is having on us personally as well as societies as a whole. We......more

Goodreads review by Emilie on February 22, 2022

For full disclosure, I received a Kindle version of this book for free in a Goodreads giveaway. I can’t say I really enjoyed this book. As another reader mentioned, the first chapters offer general descriptions of mental disorders that really drag the book down, particularly if you have previous kn......more

Goodreads review by Charles on October 22, 2021

Frontal Fatigue is a highly readable book about a subject that effects all of the developed world. Neurological and psychiatric concepts are often difficult to communicate, but Dr. Rego writes in a conversational and direct style that will be accessible to most readers. The increase in certain menta......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on February 20, 2023

I'm not super-sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. I experienced this via audiobook, and it felt way more like being at a heavy health science lecture than I anticipated. I think the voice had a little to do with it. Regardless, it took 90% of the book to get to the actual subject. The fir......more

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