News One Minute Brain Scan Can Diagnose Ptsd With 95% Accuracy

[anthony]

"The healthy people had the ability to maintain the flexibility of their networks at various trauma strength exposures," said Georgopolous.

Those with PTSD, though, have what he calls "inflexibility" in their neural networks.

"Their networks were locked in and could not be modulated," he said.

Based on a one-minute scan, Georgopolous' team can spot inflexible PTSD circuits with 95 per cent accuracy.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/researchers-pinpoint-circuits-that-drive-ptsd-flashbacks-1.3432581

 

[ms spock]

Wow that is amazing.

 

[LuckyDuck]

I wonder what constitutes the other 5%.

 

[Friday]

Now that's fascinating.

I'm curious what

"The healthy people had the ability to maintain the flexibility of their networks at various trauma strength exposures," said Georgopolous.

means, exactly?

 

[ms spock]

That they are able to actually respond from the pre-frontal lobes and not from the amygdala or the anterior cynus gyrate (spelling may not be correct) - instead of REACTING and jumping into fight, flight, fawn or freeze - they have actual choices in their brain functions? @FridayJones?

 

[void]

Well, congrats to the crack team @ CBC (Canada's state funded media) for writing this story and getting it to press ONLY 41 MONTHS:wideeyed: after it was posted on YouTube.

Yes, you heard that right, 3 years and 5 months:wideeyed:...well, that's life in the information age.(rolls eyes*)

NB: No disrespect to Anthony, my remarks do NOT reflect upon him.:)

 

[LuckyDuck]

3 years, 5 months, 18 hours...

*ducks* :D

 

[Ed Norton]

It sounds good but I can't help but be skeptical. I would like more information. I never heard of that imaging modality- one minute, that's amazing. I would like to read the primary research article.

 

[Anarchy]

Let's see
you put someone into a scanner costing several million, thereby taking it away from doing other, perhaps more important diagnostic work

you then stress the person, by referring to their trauma, which you've already needed to find out about...

how to waste time on an expensive scanner, to tell you something you'd already found out about the patient, and which had already been established as a phenomenon back in about 1993 (which is before several active members of this forum were born).

It looks like an instance of the problem of economic calculation in the socialis[ed health care and education] commonwealth (ref; L von Mises, 1921)

 

[LuckyDuck]

Let's see
you put someone into a scanner costing several million, thereby taking it away from doing othe...

It may be a waste currently, but it is the beginning of Star Trek tricorders... :alien:

 

[Kintsugi]

10 percent of all Canadians?!

Also, Dr. Apostolos Georgopolous has one of the coolest names ever. Kudos to him for not becoming a super villain with a name like that. ;) (I am... DOCTOR APOSTOLOS! Muahahaha!)

 

[anthony]

Yes, you heard that right, 3 years and 5 months

I think you're failing to see that initial results versus studied results, are different things. If we use the SGB treatment as an example, many years ago it was claimed to cure PTSD, yet many years later with far more results, such claims were found untrue and inaccurate, with little effect occurring at all with the treatment, and those effected had high constant pain. So was it the pain that caused symptoms similar to PTSD? Most likely.

Finding something and studying it for more accurate results... two different discussions. They typically need 5 - 10 years to establish valid results and fine tune the process.

EMDR went through more than 10 years before it came to fruition towards treating PTSD. And after all was said and done, the light movements have no valid scientific basis towards the outcome -- more just a distraction.