Posted on 01/17/2023 12:32:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists have uncovered a mysterious network of brain connections that is linked to ... schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, OCD and anxiety — that share this underlying circuitry...
Some "nodes" in the circuit have been linked to psychiatric disorders in the past, while others...are instead linked to key aspects of cognitive function, like selective attention and sensory processing...
The team pinpointed brain regions where gray matter had atrophied, or shrunk, in the context of psychiatric disorders.
[T]he disorders still had something in common: the tangled network of wires that runs between all these pockets of atrophy in the brain. The team discovered this by placing all of the atrophied gray matter regions within a map of the brain's wiring, known as a "connectome"; a different research team previously constructed this connectome using brain scans from 1,000 people without psychiatric disorders.
All of the atrophied regions hooked up to a common brain network.
The existing connectome does provide some hints as to how different nodes within the circuit relate to one another. For example, some linked brain regions coordinate activity, meaning when one becomes more active, the other does too, and vice versa; other regions show the opposite relationship, where one region gets quiet as the other lights up.
Once scientists better understand the role of the circuit in different disorders, it may be possible for doctors to treat psychiatric symptoms by tuning activity in one part of the network, Taylor suggested. For example, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) — a noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate neurons in the brain and has been approved as a treatment for depression, OCD and smoking cessation — could be used to this end.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Many of those with experience know someone with problems in the area of addiction.
One notices that it is clearly intertwined with other issue directly related. Such as a person starts having anxiety, it grows, and the person relapses(self medicates) Same for the other issues.
Yada yada. Psychiatry is pseudoscience. Every one of their earlier pronouncements (brain chemical imbalance, etc etc) followed by a destructive drug regimen are complete failures.
Here is the latest hoax. Anything to keep the paychecks coming in and the pharma drug mills fed with govt cash.
There is a similar pattern with OCD. I have a family member who suffers from at times debilitating OCD. And each episode is ‘kicked off’ by a ‘change of life’ / transition event. Not sure if that’s the exact thing you’re talking about, but it sounds like the kind of experience we’ve encountered.
Essentially. There’s a recurring pattern.
If you see it enough, you know what happens next.
OCD, anxiety, racing thoughts compound and grow, then it affects the person’s decision making, then they self medicate.
Round and round…
You’ve obviously never dealt with someone with psychiatric issues. Let me tell you, they are very real. And yeah, big pharma is working it’s grift there too. And while the issues aren’t thoroughly understood, some people couldn’t function without the benefit of the medication.
This is neuroscience not psychiatry.
It’s like when the Germans’ attacked Pearl Harbor, it’s a FR tradition.
Joe should leave his brain to science.
This is neuroscience not psychiatry.
No it is neuropsychiatry.
And that is a thing. If I have another person tell me that brain changes are not related to thoughts and behaviors, I am going to cry.
Many people who were adopted have an actual change to the brain development from that early trauma ( especially if the had neglect in an orphanage or abuse). It would be wonderful if this research can someday help them physically heal those parts of the brain because many suffer lifelong issues of various types, even if they had a good childhood after adoption. I think most “counseling” in these cases makes the resulting issues worse.
It would be cool if the knowledge advances.
Some use meditation/visualization in conjunction with biofeedback, with the concept of altering synaptic connections via neuroplasticity.
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READ LATER.
Brain atrophy is a major problem, but that’s nothing new.
Drugs.....................
Nature or nurture? Both, it can be a threshold thing...
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