Brain scans - fMRI, QEEG, PET, or SPECT - for psychiatric problems

[Futurerecovery]

What about diffusion weighted MRI?

[Christian]

Hello,

 

During one of my many google searches I came up with the article below. My neuro psychiatrist suggested that adverse reactions to medications don't have a medical diagnosis but the most seasoned medical expert will put it in the "toxic encephatology" category. I guess it's hard to diagnose with MRIs or CT Scans as we know. But there is a lot of evidence supporting SPECT imaging. I may have one done fir disability purposes. We already know that it's a time healing. Nothing a Doctor can do.

 

http://iggy131313.blogspot.com/2013/11/toxic-encephalopathy-caused-by-taking.html?m=1

[Altostrata]

merged similar topics

[Daisy1]

I'm going to ask my gp for a scan and referral to a neurologist. My reaction was so bad my adrenal glands aren't functioning properly, I know this because i have protein in my urine and low pottasium. I had my bloods repested again, and have the results back Monday. I use to have panick attacks sometimes but now I can barely feel my heart beat which must be low cortisol levels. My gp looked concerned listening to my heart on my back. It will be interesting to see what they find.

[Lakelander82]

Regular aerobic exercise apparently increases blood flow to all parts of the brain, so I guess that would help. It also ramps up BDNF production as well as other neurotrophic factors, thus increasing neurogenesis/neuroplasticity.

[Daisy1]

I'm too frightened to try this sort of excerise, my heart rythem feels a bit strange. I walk my dog 3-5 times a day, sometimes briskly. I think aerobics is great for those who are nearly out of the woods, but possibly too intense for those who have a lot of symptons. I think swimming, yoga and walking.

[Lakelander82]

I'm too frightened to try this sort of excerise, my heart rythem feels a bit strange. I walk my dog 3-5 times a day, sometimes briskly. I think aerobics is great for those who are nearly out of the woods, but possibly too intense for those who have a lot of symptons. I think swimming, yoga and walking.

 

I'm far from out of the woods yet and no matter how low I have been, I've always made time for exercise because I know the boost it gives me. This is entirely the individual's own choice however.

 

Btw, although Claire Weekes advice on coping with nervous illness is kind of dated, she maintained aerobic exercise abolished irregular heart rhythms/flutters/palpitations.

[Area1255]

fMRI's are used extensively in criminal research and on the brains of violent criminals as well as those with schizophrenia etc, it is used to highlight patterns of brain activity versus a standard pallet like a MRI which only shows brain structures and sizes to compare. They definitely have more use than many of the other tests however in terms of specific, regional, and discrete brain regions, PET scans are predominant especially when using ligands to verify brain activity and / or genetic contributions to such activity.

 

It's important to realize that when extrapolating research one considers the difference between In-Vitro (outside living organism, separate organ itself or assembly in culture dish) & In-Vivo (within a living organism). Rookie mistakes are often done when attempting to take assumptions based on the former as we are not seeing the whole picture. When a living body (even of an animal) has all systems in-tact, the collaboration of such entities gives us a more 'realistic' look of how body systems interact including with the brain, but it also tells us how truly sophisticated it all is and how difficult it is to pinpoint a particular problem, simply because we can have influences to the brain based on gut abnormalities or other bodily problems like kidney failure, or kidney taxing, or liver dysfunction.

 

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414652/
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17479522
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3285780
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22239386
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3597411/

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/think-act-be/201605/using-brain-scans-diagnose-mental-disorders
2. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2015/542467/
3. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/neuroimaging-and-mental-illness-a-window-into-the-brain/index.shtml

[Daisy1]

Let's hope Mark Zuckerberg & his wife's money invents a new generation of brain scanning so big pharma can see the damage for themselves!

[Ketiperri]

 

We hope that Mark Zuckerberg is giving money to research, which found a solution to this damage **** medicines and psychiatrists...

[stan]

for what I understood, antidepressants (or benzodiazepines etc.) act on neurons, synaptic gaps close, and when they are stopped, neurotransmitters are damaged or become necrotic, or they are too numerous...

what to do to see the damage in neurons is photographe neurons within the synaptic clefts that no longer open, no longer worked and become uselessl and died, that's where we should see the damage, less hormones that pass through the nerves, deluge of hormones etc.

scans show brain tumors for example, but the damage of Sris do not give tumors, . démyiélinisations etc

I think that with these methods we come to nothing

 

antidepressants act on the neurons, it is here we must look, not the lack of blood or something in brain ...

[Daisy1]

I agree Ketiperri, a solution out of this mess would be amazing. I will dream about that tonight !

[RachelE]

Something troubling me about psychiatry's recent use of brain imagery. They are using it as an excuse to lobotomize patients! No kidding! They claim that since certain parts of the brain light up during periods of obsessive compulsive behavior they can use a laser to kill that part of the brain, thus "curing" the OCD. Talk about stupid! Let's see, since many OCD behaviors such as hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting employ the hands maybe they should amputate the patients' hands. That would cure the behavior since they would never be able to pull their hair or bite their nails again.

 

http://www.livescience.com/37120-psychosurgery-ocd.html

[Happy2Heal]

On 11/11/2011 at 8:12 PM, Altostrata said:

n the meantime, fMRI has still taught us something interesting: The human brain loves looking at pictures of itself.

ROFL

 

that's priceless