<p><b>Cingulate</b></p><p><span>Developmental trauma seems to impact the cingulate’s function. Circuitry connecting homologous sites in the LH and RH pass through the cingulate. It is divided into anterior and posterior regions, which have separate but complementary functions.</span></p><p>Networks are built of nodes and connections; nodes are highly connected and highly central neocortical regions in the brain that are responsible for the integration of information, globally (across many networks) (Van den Heuvel &amp; Sporns, 2011). Some nodes are more densely connected than others, some less. Rubinov and Sporns (2010) identified different nodes as different kinds of hubs, based upon their level of participation in their respective networks, or communities, as well as their level of connectedness to other modules.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><b>Cuneus and PCC</b></p><p>Observations of the default mode network (DMN) during sleep show, just as during the DMN activity in mind wandering, that portions of the pre-frontal cortex are active during dreaming, as are the medial temporal lobe structures and the posterior cingulate (all of these points are nodes that make up the network of the DMN). Conversely, other studies show that, in REM sleep, executive-processing regions of the pre-frontal cortex are mostly deactivated, beyond levels seen during waking mind wandering, which suggests that dreaming may be an “intensified” version of waking mind wandering (Fox, Nijeboer, Solomonova, Domhoff, &amp; Christoff., 2015). Rizzolatti, Semi, &amp; Fabbri-Destro (2013) contend that the activation of the DMN might correspond to the psychoanalytic unconscious (p. 5).</p><p><b>Ventro-Medial Pre-frontal cortices</b></p><p>The left ventro-lateral pre-frontal cortex (VMFPC), an area responsible for high level executive processing. Excessive high amplitude beta in the occipital and posterior temporal regions is often responsible for feelings of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, with or without a stressful stimulus. The temporal regions are known for sensorial processing.&nbsp;</p><p>F7, the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex, is important in deductive reasoning. The nature and importance of deductive reasoning in the condition of OCD may be one reason the amplitude of beta is higher at these regions of the brain. This area is also important for the production of words (as it is a part of the brain called Broca’s area) and it may also be important for the imitation of movements and in the copying of social interactions 9as it pertains to predicting the behavior of others).&nbsp;</p><p><b>F7</b></p><p>The F7 site (left hand side) is located above the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, but also affects the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the executive system. This includes auditory working memory, selective attention, word retrieval, and functions related to Broca’s area, including word generation. Mood regulation dealing with emotional-contextual information also has to do with this area, as well as verbal fluency, lexical functions, phonemes, grammar and syntax. This area is also involved in episodic, declarative, and working memory. This area covers Brodmann areas 44, 45 and 46. On the right hand side, in adults (F8), this involves spatial and visual working memory, sustained attention, prosody, sensing the gestalt, and the conscious processing of facial recognition and emotions (Thompson &amp; Thompson, 2015, p. 53).&nbsp; These bilateral areas (F7 and F8) have links to the medial prefrontal cortex, the insula, and the anterior cingulate, which are involved in the cortisol secretion related to stress (Levine et al, 1998).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>