TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN

nicole55 · 03-15-2005, 05:17 PM

FYI
If anyone is interested you should pick up the new issue of TIME. The March 21, 2005 issue with the Virgin Mary on the cover. There is a interesting article about Resetting the Brain. They a starting to use magnets to "reset" the brain. Already started testing on depression patients at an experimental stage and are getting ready to do a controlled study. They are also going to start to look into it helping with other areas like anxiety. Talks a lot about electric current in the brain and the neural circuits.

Anyway it was interesting and no brain drilling or anything shocking just magnetic pulses to the outside of the head.

MizzT · 03-15-2005, 06:24 PM

interesting....scary....but interesting.....also....not to my brain, you dont!

but here is the link
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...037684,00.html

nicole55 · 03-15-2005, 06:29 PM

thanks for posting the link! I'm not to computer savvy!

hope · 03-15-2005, 07:56 PM

I have the article. I am sure the drug companies don't like it one bit. It does sound promising. I'd do it.

elisa · 03-16-2005, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by defonz3

interesting....scary....but interesting.....also....not to my brain, you dont!

but here is the link
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...037684,00.html

Defonz - I agree with you. I'd prefer doing your "tapping" on the brain anytime.

As an ECT survivor with bad experiences - NO ONE WILL TOUCH MY BRAIN. They still don't know how it really works and won't tell the truth about it either. That's coming from psychiatrists. I don't trust any of their concoctions.

silence4now · 03-16-2005, 01:27 PM

I would love to see more on this therapy. Why wouldn't it work. They used to use electroshock treatment to reset the brain. The brain works off of electro-magnetic energy and impulses. I have read about resetting the amygdala, the organ in the brain responsible for "fight or flight." If I can use a magnet to do it rather than psychotherapy or meditation, wouldn't that be too easy.

nicole55 · 03-16-2005, 02:48 PM

Well, I am so glad that people are still out there researching new things, and trying to find other options besides drugs. And I'm glad it's not something so invasive like old electroshock and drilling the brain. Of course it's a long way off from ever being proven and tested but I am going to try and follow it .

My anxiety is so bad I think I would try it.

elisa · 03-17-2005, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by silence4now

I would love to see more on this therapy. Why wouldn't it work. They used to use electroshock treatment to reset the brain. The brain works off of electro-magnetic energy and impulses. I have read about resetting the amygdala, the organ in the brain responsible for "fight or flight." If I can use a magnet to do it rather than psychotherapy or meditation, wouldn't that be too easy.

Silence - ECT is still being used today. It doesn't reset the brain. It's rather a similar attempt to kicking the TV set when it fails, like shooting at random. It's deliberately causing brain injury. The results are severe headaches, utter confusion and memory loss, especially the short term memory loss (which often doesn't return). It also causes cognitive decline.

Compare it to an old telephone switchboard that has gone haywire after a surge.

How can one trust anything that psychiatry promotes as being safe and effective, such as ECT? www.ect.org

03-15-2005, 05:17 PM	#1
nicole55 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 540	TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN FYI If anyone is interested you should pick up the new issue of TIME. The March 21, 2005 issue with the Virgin Mary on the cover. There is a interesting article about Resetting the Brain. They a starting to use magnets to "reset" the brain. Already started testing on depression patients at an experimental stage and are getting ready to do a controlled study. They are also going to start to look into it helping with other areas like anxiety. Talks a lot about electric current in the brain and the neural circuits. Anyway it was interesting and no brain drilling or anything shocking just magnetic pulses to the outside of the head.

03-15-2005, 06:24 PM	#2
MizzT Banned Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NM Posts: 6,881	Re: TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN interesting....scary....but interesting.....also....not to my brain, you dont! but here is the link http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...037684,00.html

03-15-2005, 06:29 PM	#3
nicole55 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 540	Re: TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN thanks for posting the link! I'm not to computer savvy!

03-15-2005, 07:56 PM	#4
hope Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 3,185	Re: TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN I have the article. I am sure the drug companies don't like it one bit. It does sound promising. I'd do it. __________________ Hope. "I never cared much for flim flam doctors." (Doctor Baker, Little House on the Prairie). Put on Paxil in 1996 for Post-partum depression. After 5th withdrawal attempt, went into severe debilitating withdrawal, restarted Paxil in the ER which didn't work anymore. Taken off again quickly by a shrink, started on Lexapro. Body rejected all drugs except benzos. Currently off all drugs. Not quite 100% yet, but working towards getting there.

03-16-2005, 01:27 PM	#6
silence4now Join Date: May 2004 Location: SE U.S. Posts: 3,422	Re: TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN I would love to see more on this therapy. Why wouldn't it work. They used to use electroshock treatment to reset the brain. The brain works off of electro-magnetic energy and impulses. I have read about resetting the amygdala, the organ in the brain responsible for "fight or flight." If I can use a magnet to do it rather than psychotherapy or meditation, wouldn't that be too easy. __________________ Lisa - Paxil free since May 2004 _________________________________ God's economy is always positive.

03-16-2005, 02:48 PM	#7
nicole55 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 540	Re: TIME Article RESETTING THE BRAIN Well, I am so glad that people are still out there researching new things, and trying to find other options besides drugs. And I'm glad it's not something so invasive like old electroshock and drilling the brain. Of course it's a long way off from ever being proven and tested but I am going to try and follow it . My anxiety is so bad I think I would try it.

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