Subject: (Gordon) Brain shocks trigger depression (fwd) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 050919 -0500 (CDT) From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org> To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org> -------------------------------------------------- .......I suppose this particular manifestation could depend upon "where" the brain is stimulated by the "electicical" effect? Or, put another way -- perhaps stimulation at a different point in the brain would produce a different effect?? Perhaps elation and joy, etc..... (I believe these effects have been reported before? May not be a "new discovery" as the French doctor suggests???......guru.....) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 06:01:06 -0400 From: jeff.gordon@wellnow.com To: rbeavers@llion.org Subject: (fwd, news) Brain shocks trigger depression (from this morning's InfoBeat) ======= *** Brain shocks trigger depression BOSTON (AP) - Accidental electrical stimulation of the brain during medical treatment can trigger bouts of deep depression that come and go almost instantly. French doctors made the discovery while treating a woman with Parkinson's disease. They implanted electrodes deep in her brain in an attempt to stimulate the parts that malfunction in her disease. To their surprise, they found that turning on one of these electrodes made the woman profoundly sad. She leaned to the right, started to cry and told of feeling of sad, guilty and useless. "I no longer wish to live, to see anything, hear anything, feel anything," she told doctors. Asked if she felt pain, she replied, "No, I'm fed up with life. I've had enough." Ninety seconds after the doctors stopped the electrical stimulation, the woman's depression disappeared. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559523950-469 ======== -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com --------------------------------------------------------- Well Now Health Information Service Box 15524 Atlanta Georgia [30333] --------------------------------------------------------- "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using any means available to that purpose." --------------------------------------------------------- Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html