“Written in simple yet sophisticated language, Frontal Fatigue provides a deeper perception of how our society lacks understanding, awareness, and acceptance of the most common mental health problems today. This book also provides recommendations and solutions to our mental dilemmas and how to counteract prefrontal cortex fatigue.[…] I truly loved this book! It intrigued me to the core.”

Mark Rego has figured out something that has been in front of the noses of mental health specialists for decades. It’s this: the stampede of new information that humans must process every day is wearing down the brain’s capacity to function correctly. Through painstaking research, interviews with international experts, and reflections on the many patients who have crossed his path, Dr. Rego easily and clearly takes his reader on a guided tour of major psychiatric conditions, the social foundations of wellness and the intricacies of brain physiology.

‘Frontal Fatigue. The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness’ is a master class in psychiatry with an eye opening conclusion that will make everyone who reads it rethink the role that technology plays in our lives.

Scott Haltzman, MD

In this ground-breaking work, Dr. Rego offers a radically new understanding of why stress and mental illness are increasing even as technology seems to ease our lives. He shows how the complex, abstract, and endlessly shifting demands of modern life overwhelm the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brain that is uniquely human but uniquely vulnerable. He closes with new insights for finding sanity and tranquility in the cacophony of the new human experience.

Paul Desan MD PhD

As a student of human nature, Rego’s assessment rings true. Readable, accessible, balanced and insightful, honest and reasoned, Rego’s work speaks to mind, heart and soul. Read it and find there is hope for you amid the ‘crazy’ world we are in.

With deft writing and the sensibility of a natural teacher, Dr. Mark Rego has written a book that accomplishes many things. He provides an overview of psychological health and mental illness in plain language. He translates philosophical and social theory of our time into a commonsense, transparent account of why mental illness is on the increase. He provides the scientific background for his hypothesis of frontal fatigue, all in easy-to-understand language. He defends the frontal fatigue hypothesis with cutting-edge scientific findings, and describes how we might respond and adapt. In this short book he provides a provocative analysis of how our runaway technoculture is draining brains still better-suited to the Stone Age.

John Z. Sadler MD