[CuriouslyCrazy]

Hello everyone!

I wanted to inform everyone about a recent discovery! Mania is not caused by a chemical imbalance. It's caused by an increase in the size of the lateral ventricles in the brain! This in turn causes too much blood to enter the brain, causing too much to occur in the brain. That's why thoughts race, everything's so fast. It makes absolute sense. And that's why extremities become cold. Because all of the blood is being directed towards the brain. I'm going to write a paper to be published in all the medical journals. Because this is an important discovery! Everyone needs to know about it.

Now to just find a way to decrease the size of these ventricles.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Where did you learn this? Do you have a link? it's an interesting idea. I'm not sure why meds that alter brain chemistry would work with that being the cause and I'd like to read more.

Thanks

[CuriouslyCrazy]

This has some information, but they weren't able to figure it out like I did. I put the pieces together.

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/36853.pdf

[jacky8807]

I didn't read the link but quick question....I know thy have done brain scans on ppl with bipolar so wouldn't this have shown up?

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Your theory is interesting but it seems to me like it is probably more all the brain abnormalities together that create the disease. They have certainly got a lot more work to do in this area though and none of what they do now explains everything. It's definitely complex. I've arranged to donate my body/brain after death to help them hopefully figure this out someday.

[gina_re]

I've come across a few papers that study individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and how they do have brain abnormalities. It is a work in process.
I would like to do that too beyondtherainbow. How do you have that arranged?

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I go to a big research hospital and just filled out a form from the hospital that I downloaded and sent in and made sure all my family knows what I want. If I understand correctly because I wrote on the form I want my brain to go to psychiatric research that will happen and the remainder of my body will be used for medical education or research. Details:

Possible trigger:

They will transport my body to the hospital within 100 miles without cost (so there will be some cost to my family to get me a bit closer) and otherwise everything is taken care of; they cremate the bodies when they are done and return the remains to the family or bury them with other donated bodies at the wishes of my family. I think it says it is about 1-3 years until they are done with the body.

This just makes sense to me and also I know that when I was in school to be an occupational therapist we didn't have cadaver lab because they could no longer afford cadavers because there aren't enough for all the medical science programs in the country and had become a big business. So the year before I started was the last year my school used them (although I think they now do again). I know that I really missed out on that part of my education and I never learned anatomy as well as I would have with that included. I wouldn't have gone to that school had I known in advance they were changing their teaching methods in that area because I think it in invaluable to learn anatomy in great detail like that. So someday I'll hopefully help reverse that issue, sort of. Nobody will pay for my body and nobody should. I certainly won't be needing it.

[jacky8807]

What I have read states it is pretty inconclusive at this point. I read that it is hard to study MI after death because what we think is the main problem (neurotransmitters ect) are not active at death

[gina_re]

Thanks! I'll definitely look into it. I've also mentioned it a few times to family members just in case.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I think (and this is from a different disease situation and just a friend telling about what her family had done) that they try to get brains to study as quickly as possible. Even though the neurotransmitters are not active the faster they can take samples and whatever the more they can learn about the disease process. If I remember my friends' family's situation they had a set number of hours to get the body to the hospital.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

It doesn't take anything formal from you. It's best for your family to know your plans and I think the hospital likes to have some record of what might be coming but as long as a body doesn't have certain diseases at the time of death (and some pretty contagious things can be allowed) then it's just a matter of a phone call or two and some papers to be signed. I worked with a family who couldn't afford burial and death was not anticipated and they went with body donation as a practical measure. That's how I actually first read about it even though I'd been interested for a long time.

Originally Posted by gina_re

Thanks! I'll definitely look into it. I've also mentioned it a few times to family members just in case.

[Christopher1990]

Originally Posted by jacky8807

I didn't read the link but quick question....I know thy have done brain scans on ppl with bipolar so wouldn't this have shown up?

There is no way to detect mental illness from a brain scan. No way to actually prove there is a chemical imbalance.

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[jacky8807]

Originally Posted by Christopher1990

There is no way to detect mental illness from a brain scan. No way to actually prove there is a chemical imbalance.

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Right.....but she was talking about the size of the ventricles in the brain which you CAN see.that's what we were talking about