metadigital Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 [quote name='Scientific American OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 (edited) Interesting. Edited September 9, 2006 by Blank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted September 9, 2006 Author Share Posted September 9, 2006 Turning Off Depression Helen Mayberg may have found the switch that lifts depression OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Hades Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Hmmm... Prozac.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Thanks meta, I enjoyed reading that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Raven Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 yeah real good read. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Your words are in italics, so they seem insincere, but I'm not sure. To make matters worse, your avatar is giving me strange looks, like it wants to eat me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I think meta has been taken over by a prozac dealin' bot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 The article deals with fluoxetine supplied under prescription through medical channels, not the "vegetarian", "herbal" and/or "natural remedy" ineffective spam-fodder rubbish that deluges our inboxes. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nartwak Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I've experienced something like this. I suffered a lot of depressive episodes as a child, and what they're describing is spot on. The episode spontaneously ended and it was like someone flipped a switch and retuned my vision. Everything become tremendously vivid. It's nice to know what may have been going on in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 One in seix people will experience depression in their lives ... so if you stand in a queue, between the person in front of you, yourself and the person behind you, and their significant others, one of you WILL be directly affected by it. Funny, some people do need two more holes in their head! :D OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nartwak Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 One in seix people will experience depression in their lives ... so if you stand in a queue, between the person in front of you, yourself and the person behind you, and their significant others, one of you WILL be directly affected by it. Funny, some people do need two more holes in their head! :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What can I say, I'm a team player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Hmm....interesting, and if it continues to hold in further tests, it would probably make certain patterns in my life sensical. What I'm always curious about is why areas of the brain get turned on and off like that, and why for some people like Nartwark it happens on it's own, and for others, it appears to get 'stuck' forever and does not. Not that I expect any answers anytime soon. Of course, I'm not sure I want anyone drilling holes in my skull and putting electrodes in my head. I'm funny that way. Good for testing perhaps, but I hope in the long run they find a less invasive method to affect that area of the brain. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 Yeah, it got me thinking about ways to send targeted electric current without invasive wiring. It would mean sending flesh-friendly energy to a specific, targeted point, and then causing this energy to become electrical and disperse into the area (at 4 volts). But miniturization is ongoing. This is just a proof of concept. Nanotech could easily create a structure in the brain with minimum invasion. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illuminator Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 [quote name='Scientific American The Illuminator Democracy starts with allowing different political opinions to express themselves. Fascism starts with killling all, who has different political opinions than yours. It's a pity for earth as it is full of fascists claiming to be democratic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share Posted September 18, 2006 I am led to believe that the neurogenesis triggers a new phase of neuronal pruning after the creation. There seems to be a measurable difference in neuronal activity, so I assume this would presume adequate blood supply. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illuminator Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 I am led to believe that the neurogenesis triggers a new phase of neuronal pruning after the creation. There seems to be a measurable difference in neuronal activity, so I assume this would presume adequate blood supply. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is this scientifically documented? Cuz I know that obesity causes heart to be hypertrophied and in this condition the number of contractile heart cells increases, but as the coronary arteries are unable to enlerge to face the myocardial demand of blood effectively with the cells increased in number, ischemia occurs in time with the celss not fed and myocardial infarction occurs in time. Increase in the amount of cells may not be always useful. The Illuminator Democracy starts with allowing different political opinions to express themselves. Fascism starts with killling all, who has different political opinions than yours. It's a pity for earth as it is full of fascists claiming to be democratic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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