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posted October 28, 2010 03:38 AM
  
Interesting...WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) The flashbacks experienced by people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated with heightened activity on the right side of the brain, a new study finds. In research that included 80 people with PTSD (many of them U.S. combat veterans), 18 PTSD patients in remission and 284 people without the condition, researchers used a technique called MEG (magnetoencephalography) to detect magnetic charges given off when neurons in the brain connect and communicate. Participants were asked to wear a MEG helmet while concentrating on a spot 65 centimeters in front of them for 60 seconds. Compared with the healthy "controls," the PTSD patients showed "hyperactive" communication between the temporal cortex -- the part of the brain thought to be responsible for reliving past experiences -- and two other areas on the right side of the brain.
The PTSD patients in remission had similar but less pronounced brain activity as those with PTSD. This "hyperactive" brain state occurred even though the PTSD patients, and all the other participants, were in a relaxed state while undergoing MEG. "Remarkably, the differences we found between the PTSD and the control groups were documented in a task-free state," the researchers wrote. They added that in people with PTSD, the right hemisphere was overactive even when individuals were not reliving a traumatic experience. The study -- conducted by the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Minnesota -- appears in the Oct. 28 issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering. yahoo.com news IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted October 28, 2010 04:36 AM
you might like the book The Tao of Equus. The author talks at length about trauma, the brain, the mind-body connection and sociosensuality: our picking up intentions and feelings from others (horses, too - picking them up from animals and human beings). *edit. There are women in the book - including the author herself, who have been abused, though ( at least two). IP: Logged |
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posted October 29, 2010 02:08 AM
Thank you, it sounds like a good read and something i can relate with. I'll look into it.  IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted November 02, 2010 11:01 PM
isnt right brain connectided with creativity?i find nothing creative about ptsd, had a horrible flare up tonight after a trying day at work. but i am quite willing to listen and learn and participate.. t~~~ IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 10, 2011 06:01 AM
I recently read that meditation and certain things can make depression worse instead of better, in some cases - it stimulates the part of the brain that feels that fear. It was on the Beyond Blue blog. IP: Logged |
lechien
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posted December 10, 2011 09:11 AM
i didn't really get into meditation myself, it was ok initially but instead of calming my brain became too active during the meditative state.i got EFT tapping to help me a bit. the whole Law of Attraction thing aside, it's important to actually ADDRESS the causes of PTSD and face it and accept it as part of what is plaguing me. it's not nice but after the initial impact and perseverance with the daily practice, it did get better to a degree. my phobia lessened too which was unrelated (or so it seems). i think it's especially effective with people with Complex-PTSD. but i doubt this only can heal everything. it's good to use it alongside the others, if other methods are available. this one can do privately. IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted February 06, 2012 06:30 PM
Just stumbled upon this thread again.I am beginning to see. As per my recent post on H&H my doc says I have a hypereactive CNS. Well, sheeeat... Making more sense to me day by day!\ IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted February 06, 2012 06:31 PM
I truely wish there were studies on PTSD regarding domestic violence not just Veterans...SO much can be learned about the psyche and mind/body affect... IP: Logged |
LEXX
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posted February 06, 2012 06:58 PM
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Originally posted by hippichick:
Just stumbled upon this thread again.I am beginning to see. As per my recent post on H&H my doc says I have a hypereactive CNS. Well, sheeeat... Making more sense to me day by day!\
I too have a Hyperactive CNS/Central Nervous System due to most likely to several severe head trauma events,
and other neurological damage.
And yes, severe PTSD.
It is hard to live with. 
Toss in a form of Narcolepsy, and what is deemed as MPD....which in my case is remembering and in touch with my past lives' identities, but try to convince the medical community of that when all they can see or accept is "crazy" and no taking into account that past lives are real.  ------------------
~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX
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amelia28
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posted February 08, 2012 03:09 AM
People who are creative have a hyperactive right brain too though. Actually my husband is extremely creative but he also has insomnia which is a symptom of PTSD and his dad died when he was 13 and this affected him and he fears death. I have always thought that his fear of death is linked to his insomnia in an unconscious level.IP: Logged |
amelia28
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posted February 08, 2012 03:31 AM
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Originally posted by hippichick:
I truely wish there were studies on PTSD regarding domestic violence not just Veterans...SO much can be learned about the psyche and mind/body affect...
Good idea! If one of the symptoms of PTSD is: Feeling irritable or having outbursts of anger then this can translate to domestic violence since the real issues are been buried in the subconscious often and not confronted this can result in people who live with person with this condition been the scapegoats of the pain of person with this condition until this is confronted and addressed by him/her. IP: Logged |
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posted February 17, 2012 09:55 PM
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listenstotrees
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posted February 19, 2012 06:42 PM
So.....The linear left side activity is deadened slightly due to the mind's defense mechanism against remembering the trauma and the right brain is therefore enhanced by the inactivity of the left??IP: Logged |
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