Posted by SLS on December 4, 2004, at 7:26:45
In reply to Re: Neurosurgery for mental disorder, posted by linkadge on December 3, 2004, at 23:58:39
> Psychosurgery is like taking those fear/depression/hell centers and burning them out, finally letting the better part of the brain work.
Personally, I am interested in how psychosurgery impacts bipolar depression. I think the physiology behind it is different from unipolar depression, although there are similarities in their expression. I would hate to go in for an operation that works for unipolar depression but for which little work was done to assure that it is also effective for bipolar depression.
My illness does not manifest as depressive thinking, sadness, melancholy, or sadness so much as it does as profound anergia, anhedonia, lack of interest and motivation, and cognitive deficits. I worry that the physiology and brain circuits responsible for the two illness are different, and that these procedures don't target the right tissues for bipolar disorder. I think there is a problem with the DLPFC in my case. Would these procedures have any impact on this area?
- Scott
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