Showing posts with label Auditory/visual hallucinations/Delirium/Psychosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auditory/visual hallucinations/Delirium/Psychosis. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 October 2013

An "excuse" to symptoms of the Implanted ...Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease...

"Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD is a degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is incurable and invariably fatal. CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE)... 
....The first symptom of CJD is rapidly progressive dementia, leading to memory loss, personality changes and hallucinations. Other frequently occurring features include anxiety, depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and psychosis. This is accompanied by physical problems such as speech impairment, jerky movements (myoclonus), balance and coordination dysfunction (ataxia), changes in gait, rigid posture, and seizures. The symptoms of CJD are caused by the progressive death of the brain's nerve cells, which is associated with the build-up of abnormal prion proteins forming amyloids...

...The defective protein can be transmitted by...electrode implants...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease

"Percutaneously injectable fetal pacemaker: electrodes, mechanical design and implantation..."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23367442

"The BION devices: injectable interfaces with peripheral
nerves and muscles...Miniature wireless stimulators received power and individually addressed command signals from an external radiofrequency transmission coil. One or more implants were injected through a 12-gauge hypodermic insertion tool into muscles or adjacent to motor nerves, where they provided the means to activate the muscles in any desired pattern of intensity and frequency...."

http://www.usc.edu/projects/rehab/private/docs/advisors/loeb/1_loeb_bion_devices.pdf

"The early psychiatric symptoms ...Aggression, insomnia, depression and visual and auditory hallucinations may also occur..."

http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/7/1/50.full

http://www.ibcn.fmed.uba.ar/kochen_lab_papers/2011_[2]_Calvet_Psychosis_after_epilepsy_surgery.pdf - Psychosis after epilepsy surgery: Report of three cases

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/75/7/1003.full.pdf  - Schizophrenia-like psychosis arising de novo following a temporal lobectomy: timing and risk factors

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14626698  - Are psychotic symptoms related to vagus nerve stimulation in epilepsy patients?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15768321 - Vagus nerve stimulation and psychosis. A single case report

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/69/2/278.full - Acute psychosis and EEG normalisation after vagus nerve stimulation

"We present the second variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob patient in the same district of Northwest Portugal. A 14-year-old ...The patient never travelled outside Portugal or received blood transfusions. She had surgical herniorrhafy in 1998 (when catgut was used) and 2003. This is the second case in Portugal in a 2-year period and 20 Km apart from each other, with no known common exposure besides cow meat ingestion. We discuss these case peculiarities and underline its epidemiological significance..."

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2007/08/31/jnnp.2007.128389.abstract

"Eight patients at a New Hampshire hospital may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain disease from surgery equipment that was used on a patient who likely had the incurable disease, state health officials said Wednesday...The patients underwent brain surgery at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester...
....A similar incident happened in 2004 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where staffers notified 98 brain and spine surgery patients that they may have been exposed to the rare disease after one surgery patient was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/09/04/eight-patients-possibly-exposed-fatal-brain-disease-during-surgery-new-hampshire-hospital/AXE5X61RI4fumn2EAYmhgN/story.html

"Surgery Linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, According to Spanish Study...A new study spearheaded by Spanish scientists demonstrates a causal relationship between the onset of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), caused by a protein called a prion, and general surgery...The finding, published recently in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, reveals that, with a few exceptions, the risk of having contracted the sporadic form of CJD manifests itself at least 20 years after having undergone an operation."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100708071513.htm

"A Doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (DCJ) é uma desordem cerebral caracterizada por perda de memória, tremores, desordem na marcha, postura rígida e ataques epilépticos, e paralisia facial que dá a impressão de que a pessoa está sempre sorrindo (contração muscular involuntária) devida a uma rápida perda de células cerebrais causada por uma proteína transmissível chamada príon.

...A DCJ Clássica se apresenta em diversas formas...pela utilização de implantes (enxertos de córnea ou de dura-máter, por exemplo). Neste caso, ocorre uma invasão do corpo do paciente por um príon externo a ele...

...Em 1996 pesquisadores e o governo britânico reconheceram a existência de um novo tipo de CJD... porque atinge pacientes muito mais jovens, normalmente em torno de vinte anos e pela ocorrência, no início da síndrome, de sintomas sensoriais e psiquiátricos..."

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doen%C3%A7a_de_Creutzfeldt-Jakob

"Despacho n.º 4520/2001(2.ª série), do Gabinete da Ministra, de 05 de Março:
 
O Programa de Vigilância Epidemiológica das Doenças Humanas por Priões tem como objectivo central a pesquisa activa e o estudo das doenças humanas por priões, nomeadamente as variantes da doença neurológica de Creutzfeldt-Jacob, através de uma rede de instituições hospitalares e científicas para gestão de informação especializada e normalizada, em
 
– O Programa é gerido por uma unidade de gestão, constituída pelas seguintes personalidades:
Prof. Doutor José Guilherme de Brito Cortez Pimentel, assistente hospitalar de neurologia e neuropatologia e professor agregado da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, que coordena.
Dr. António Carlos Viana Lima da Costa, assistente hospitar de neuropatologia do Hospital de Egas Moniz (Lisboa).

Dr.ª Carla Cristina Paulo Gabriel Bentes, interna complementar de neurologia do Hospital de Santa Maria (Lisboa).
Dr. José Carlos Marinho Falcão, chefe de serviços de saúde pública do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge.
3 – São membros associados do Programa:
Prof.ª Doutora Catarina Resende de Oliveira, professora catedrática da Faculdade de Medicina de Coimbra e chefe de serviço de neurologia dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra.
Prof.ª Doutora Maria Teresa de Aguiar dos Santos Paiva, professora auxiliar agregada da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa e chefe de serviços de neurologia do Hospital de Santa Maria (Lisboa).
Dr. Álvaro de Ascenção Brás de Almeida, assistente graduado de radiologia do Hospital de Santa Maria (Lisboa).
Dr.ª Maria Paula Pinto Martins Cyrne Pacheco, assistente principal do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge.
4 – O coordenador do Programa pode:...Convidar especialistas para integrarem o Programa como membros associados;
5 – O Programa tem sede no Laboratório de Neuropatologia do Serviço de Neurologia do Hospital de Santa Maria..."
 
http://direitodamedicina.sanchoeassociados.com/legislacao/despacho-45202001/

"Sintomas motores e psiquiátricos
...foi confirmada por um laboratório português de neuropatologia – em Portugal, só há três laboratórios do género, no Hospital de Santa Maria, em Lisboa, nos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra e no hospital de São joão, no Porto. ..Segundo o professor José Pimentel, um dos maiores especialistas portugueses na doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, os primeiros sintomas são “dificuldade na marcha por lesão do cerebelo, movimentos involuntários esquisitos (tiques) ou dores específicas em zonas do corpo”. Associados a estes, podem existir também “sintomas psiquiátricos, como depressão sem motivo aparente”. A demência é inevitável, “mas na maioria dos casos surge já numa fase tardia da doença”...

...um grupo internacional de especialistas que se debruça sobre a Creutzfeldt-Jacob e que se reúne periodicamente em vários países."

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/fotonews/2468/pdf/Pagina%2011%20-%20Portugal.pdf

Translation

"was confirmed by a laboratory of neuropathology Portuguese - Portugal, there are only three laboratories of its kind in the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, in the Coimbra University Hospitals and Hospital São Joao, Porto. .....According to Professor José Pimentel, a leading expert in Portuguese Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the first symptoms are "in the gait of cerebellar lesion, bizarre involuntary movements (tics) or pain in specific areas of the body." Associated with these, there may also be "psychiatric symptoms, as depression for no apparent reason. "Dementia is inevitable, "but in most cases already appears at a late stage of the disease" ...
... an international group of experts that focuses on the Creutzfeldt-Jacob and which meets periodically in various countries. "


http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/fotonews/2468/pdf/Pagina%2011%20-%20Portugal.pdf

Saturday, 5 October 2013

Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria - Lisbon...

At least two cases have happened, if there are more cases even if regarding other types of surgeries we expect to be disclosed...

Two girls under 30 years whose single health problem regarding the neurologic part was epilepsy.

They had epilepsy for years, medication was not working and they were sent to a epilepsy surgery in the University Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon, a affiliated Hospital of the University of Lisbon.

Before the surgery several exams have been developed to attest epilepsy, and the physical and mental health good conditions of patients.
 
Epilepsy surgery
  • Country: Portugal
  • City: Lisbon
  • University Hospital de Santa Maria 
  • Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz - University Hospital de Santa Maria
      Neurosurgery
         -  Prof. Dr. ANTÓNIO JOSÉ DE CARVALHO GONÇALVES FERREIRA
  • Neurology:
          - Prof Dr. JOSÉ GUILHERME DE BRITO CORTEZ PIMENTEL
          - Dr.ª Carla Cristina Paulo Gabriel Bentes

          - Dra. ANA PERALTA
          -...
  • Radiology 
           - Dr. CARLOS MORGADO
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Anaesthesiology
 
One of the girls (A) just had 1 surgery in 2009, the other one  (B) had 2 surgeries with the same team the 2ª surgery was also with the neurosurgeon Dr. ALEXANDRE RAINHA SILVA CAMPOS (1ª surgery around 2000 they had open the head but they were afraid and they did not cut anything, 2ª in 2012 to placed neurostimulators in the head,)
 
The neurosurgeon Prof. Dr. ANTÓNIO JOSÉ DE CARVALHO GONÇALVES FERREIRA well know:  

http://memoria.ul.pt/index.php/Colec%C3%A7%C3%A3o_de_Prepara%C3%A7%C3%B5es_%27Professor_Ant%C3%B3nio_Gon%C3%A7alves_Ferreira%27 

Coordinator of the department of investigation http://www.hsm.min-saude.pt/default.aspx?tabid=1714&MenuActive=InvesClin

Both girls who had no mental problems besides epilepsy after the epilepsy surgery they were referred to the psychiatry because of behaviour problems one of the girls (A) was suffering with auditory persecution, hearing people making comments on every action of her...they start living in FEAR...
 
Where they informed of this "Risk" of the surgery by any member of the team? NO!!!! ...

Epileptics  like others were once considered by eugenics "life unworthy of life" !!!!!
 
In other countries is happening the same and the result is one...Psychiatry... people after the epilepsy surgery complaining of torture, hearing voices in their head...
 
 http://www.ibcn.fmed.uba.ar/kochen_lab_papers/2011_[2]_Calvet_Psychosis_after_epilepsy_surgery.pdf - Psychosis after epilepsy surgery: Report of three cases

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/75/7/1003.full.pdf  - Schizophrenia-like psychosis arising de novo following a temporal lobectomy: timing and risk factors

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14626698  - Are psychotic symptoms related to vagus nerve stimulation in epilepsy patients?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15768321 - Vagus nerve stimulation and psychosis. A single case report

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/69/2/278.full - Acute psychosis and EEG normalisation after vagus nerve stimulation


"Psychosis after epilepsy surgery: Report of three cases

…Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery has become a successful alternative in patients with refractory epilepsy. However, the outcome of epilepsy surgery may be affected by the occurrence of postsurgical psychiatric symptoms, such as psychosis….

A 46-year-old, right handed woman was admitted to the Epilepsy Center of Ramos Mejía Hospital (ECRMH) with the diagnosis of refractory temporal lobe epilepsy….One month after the intervention,
the patient entered a transitory and moderately depressive state that spontaneously remitted. A year later, she developed ... auditory hallucinations (many voices commenting on her actions) that motivated referral to the emergency department of our hospital.

A 41-year-old, right-handed man was admitted to ECRMH for refractory temporal lobe epilepsy to evaluate the possibility of surgical intervention…Seventy-two hours postsurgery, he developed an acute psychotic episode, characterized by visual and kinetic hallucinations (“the surrounding and the people came over me”), auditory hallucinations (the voice of his neurologist)..."



http://www.ibcn.fmed.uba.ar/kochen_lab_papers/2011_[2]_Calvet_Psychosis_after_epilepsy_surgery.pdf

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Electro...compulsive... therapy

"Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock, is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced...
 
 Electroconvulsive therapy can differ in its application in three ways: electrode placement, frequency of treatments, and the electrical waveform of the stimulus.
 
...There is usually a risk of memory loss with ECT.
 
... In the United Kingdom, around a third of patients who are receiving ECT haven't consented to it...
 
...As early as the 16th century, agents to produce seizures were used to treat psychiatric conditions. In 1785, the therapeutic use of seizure induction was documented in the London Medical Journal. Convulsive therapy was introduced in 1934 by Hungarian neuropsychiatrist Ladislas J. Meduna...
 
...Italian Professor of neuropsychiatry Ugo Cerletti, who had been using electric shocks to produce seizures in animal experiments, ...in 1937, experimented for the first time on a person... Cerletti had noted a shock to the head produced convulsions in dogs. The idea to use electroshock on humans came to ...

...By 1940, the procedure was introduced to both England and the US. In Germany and Austria it was promoted by Friedrich Meggendorfer. Through the 1940s and 1950s, the use of ECT became widespread.

In the early 1940s, in an attempt to reduce the memory disturbance and confusion associated with treatment, two modifications were introduced: the use of unilateral electrode placement and the replacement of sinusoidal current with brief pulse...

In the 1940s and early 1950s ECT was usually given in "unmodified" form, without muscle relaxants, and the seizure resulted in a full-scale convulsion.

...Recent research has investigated whether implantable devices such as those used in DBS (deep brain stimulation) could result in clinical improvements for patients with treatment-resistant depression...

It is the purported effects of ECT on long-term memory that give rise to much of the concern surrounding its use. The acute effects of ECT can include amnesia, both retrograde (for events occurring before the treatment) and anterograde (for events occurring after the treatment).

The use of either constant or pulsing electrical impulses also varied the memory loss results in patients...

According to the researchers, "Subjects who had received remote ECT had further impairment on a variety of learning and memory tests when compared with patients with no past ECT.

...in June 2009, Portuguese researchers published a review on the safety and efficacy of ECT in an article entitled, Electroconvulsive Therapy: Myths and Evidences. In their review, the researchers conclude that ECT is an "efficient, safe:

Electroconvulsive therapy: myths and evidences

Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa

Maria Luisa Figueira is Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Figueira is also Head of the Psychiatric Department, Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon.


"...Breggin accuses Max Fink and other pro-ECT researchers of having a history of "systematically covering up damage done to millions of [ECT] patients throughout the world...Breggin writes, "Even when these injured people can continue to function on a superficial social basis, they nonetheless suffer devastation of their identities due to the obliteration of key aspects of their personal lives. The loss of the ability to retain and learn new material is not only humiliating and depressing but also disabling. Even when relatively subtle, these activities can disrupt routine activities of living."

Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist, has published books and journal reviews of the literature purporting to show that ECT routinely causes brain damage as evidenced by a considerable list of studies in humans and animals. In particular, Breggin asserts that animal and human autopsy studies have shown that ECT routinely causes 'widespread pinpoint hemorrhages and scattered cell death.' (STROKES/AVC ????)

The placement of electrodes, as well as the dose and duration of the stimulation is determined on a per-patient basis.
Both electrodes can be placed on the same side of the patient's head. This is known as unilateral ECT. Unilateral ECT is used first to minimize side effects (memory loss). When electrodes are placed on both sides of the head, this is known as bilateral ECT...
The electrodes deliver an electrical stimulus. The stimulus levels recommended for ECT are in excess of an individual's seizure threshold...

In a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post in December, 2000, registered nurse Barbara C. Cody wrote that her life was forever changed by 13 outpatient ECTs she received in 1983. She wrote,
"Shock 'therapy' totally and permanently disabled me. EEGs [electroencephalograms] verify the extensive damage shock did to my brain. Fifteen to 20 years of my life were simply erased; only small bits and pieces have returned. I was also left with short-term memory impairment and serious cognitive deficits. ... Shock 'therapy' took my past, my college education, my musical abilities, even the knowledge that my children were, in fact, my children. I call ECT a rape of the soul."
Similarly, writer Johnanton Cott claims to have completely lost 15 years of memory in On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering.

Ernest Hemingway, American author, committed suicide shortly after ECT at the Mayo Clinic in 1961"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19686628

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Luisa_Figueira


"Perforant pathway stimulation (PPS) is used to study temporal lobe epilepsy in rodents. High-frequency PPS induces acute seizures, which can lead to neuron death and spontaneous epilepsy."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21740421

"   The hippocampus is perhaps the most studied structure in the brain. together with the adjacent Amygdyla, it forms the central axis of the Limbic System. It is critical to spatial learning and awareness, navigation, episodic/event memory, associational recollection .... and much more...The perforant path is the major input to the hippocampus."

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/synaptic/pathways/
 
My question is can these diseases may have induced them to you through Electroconvulsive therapy with a tiny stimulator like the BION, that can be injected...??

..."In a person with Parkinson's disease, these nerve cells are damaged and do not work as well as they should..." http://kidshealth.org/kid/grownup/conditions/parkinson.html

..."The gradual loss of brain function that characterizes Alzheimer's disease seems to be due to two main forms of nerve damage..." http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/guide/understanding-alzheimers-disease-basics

..."Dementia involves damage of nerve cells in the brain, which may occur in several areas of the brain..." http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dementia/DS01131/DSECTION=causes
 
O choque elétrico é um estímulo rápido no corpo humano, ocasionado pela passagem da corrente elétrica
 
 Translation

Electric shock is a rapid stimulation in the human body caused by the passage of electric current
 
Wireless implantable micro-stimulation...
"Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been proven to be an effective treatment for several neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, the underlying working mechanisms are still largely unknown. Behavioral animal models are essential in examining the working mechanisms of DBS and especially mouse models are necessary to investigate the genetic component underlying specific behaviors related to psychiatric diseases....In order to overcome this limitation we have developed a new light-weight wireless implantable micro stimulator device for mice that delivers biphasic pulse patterns to two individual electrode pairs, mimicking partly the clinical situation.
... This newly designed device can now be used in the highly needed DBS behavioral studies in mice, to further
investigate the underlying mechanisms of DBS in behavioral animal models for psychiatric disorders."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22677175

Explain me as if I were a child...they are putting micro implants in mice for studying psychiatric disorders? hmm ... and are they also studying humans to see what they usually bite?


"The implantable microstimulator system is designed to help patients with neurological disorders and muscular impairments like Parkinson's, stroke and urinary incontinence.

The microstimulator system, like the refurbished nervous system proposed by Bester, is implanted near nerves, and emits electrical micropulses that stimulate muscles and nerves. These systems have been in use for more than a decade; the Bion microstimulator is a miniature, self-contained neurostimulator. A significant difference is that the actual system uses microstimulators that are self-contained; Bester's fictional system requires that all of the stimulators be interconnected and powered from a single source."
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=417
"The University of Florida is seeking a company interested in commercializing a closedloop neuroprosthetic microstimulation device for treating epileptic seizures...." http://apps.research.ufl.edu/otl/viewTechInfo.cfm?case=11930

"New lithium battery technology developed by UW-Madison emeritus professor of chemistry Robert West powers this tiny microstimulator, a device that effectively jump-starts broken nerve connections in conditions like Parkinson's, epilepsy and incontinence. "


http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/lithiumBatTech.html

"The BION devices: injectable interfaces with peripheral
nerves and muscles...Miniature wireless stimulators received power and individually addressed command signals from an external radiofrequency transmission coil. One or more implants were injected through a 12-gauge hypodermic insertion tool into muscles or adjacent to motor nerves, where they provided the means to activate the muscles in any desired pattern of intensity and frequency...."
http://www.usc.edu/projects/rehab/private/docs/advisors/loeb/1_loeb_bion_devices.pdf
 
 
"Brain electrodes were inserted into the skulls of babies in 1946 without the knowledge of their parents.  In the 1950s and 60s, electrical implants were inserted into the brains of animals and humans, especially in the U.S., during research into behavior modification, and brain and body functioning."  By Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland
December 6, 2000" http://www.naturodoc.com/library/public_health/microchip_implants.htm

 
 So if a baby is inserted with a electrical implant when born...radiations can cause after a long exposure seizures (for example) then this seizures will take him to medication, surgeries...research...other diseases like strokes, diabetes...the same cicle....and after when older Parkinson, dementia...????









Thursday, 19 September 2013

Deafness..."Crying hands"...



"Along with people diagnosed with schizophrenia, epilepsy, so-called feeblemindedness, hereditary blindness, severe hereditary physical deformity, severe alcoholism, and other ailments, the deaf were systematically turned in to local Nazi officials by teachers, nurses, social workers, and doctors. In most cases they were sterilized. Some were forced to abort pregnancies. Others were murdered...."  and others use for torture in research...and death...

http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/books/detail.php?content=2001-05-23

and also the deaf are now experience again something similar to epileptics...auditory hallucinations...

"Do profoundly prelingually deaf patients with psychosis really hear voices?" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16856645 

"Prelingually profoundly deaf schizophrenic patients who hear voices: a phenomenological analysis." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10408268   ...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Cardiac psychosis...

"There is an increase in the risk of heart attack if a first-degree relative (parent or sibling)..."
 
http://www.uihealthcare.org/2column.aspx?id=237281
 
"Eugenics has also been concerned with the elimination of hereditary diseases..."
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
 
"Damage to the autonomic nervous system is a key predictor of cardiovascular risk, researcher Rianne Ravensbergen told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2011, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. "

http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ikIQLcMWJtE&b=7799765&ct=11300873

"Injured heart tissue conducts electrical impulses more slowly than normal heart tissue...
The cardiac defibrillator is a device that was specifically designed to terminate these potentially fatal arrhythmias. The device works by delivering an electrical shock to the patient in order to depolarize a critical mass of the heart muscle, in effect "rebooting" the heart."
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction
 

Research: 
 
"Sleep deprivation consistently preceded onset of these symptoms..." - Postoperative psychosis after heart surgery
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1177486   
  
Cerebral embolism and psychosis with special reference to cardiac surgery - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/61257
 
Psychotic reactions after cardiac surgery. A critical review - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4950880
 
Mental and neurological disorders associated with heart operations. Pre- and postoperative studies - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1261955
 
Postcardiotomy psychosis in non-English-speaking patients - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5148647
 
Psychiatric effects of cardiac surgery - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1020860
 
The hidden psychosis of open-heart surgery. With a note on the sense of awe - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4678683
 
 
Postcardiotomy psychosis: indications and interventions - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1041578
 
 

Monday, 16 September 2013

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease...

 "Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD is a degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is incurable and invariably fatal. CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE)... 
....The first symptom of CJD is rapidly progressive dementia, leading to memory loss, personality changes and hallucinations. Other frequently occurring features include anxiety, depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and psychosis. This is accompanied by physical problems such as speech impairment, jerky movements (myoclonus), balance and coordination dysfunction (ataxia), changes in gait, rigid posture, and seizures. The symptoms of CJD are caused by the progressive death of the brain's nerve cells, which is associated with the build-up of abnormal prion proteins forming amyloids...

...The defective protein can be transmitted by...electrode implants...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease

"The early psychiatric symptoms ...Aggression, insomnia, depression and visual and auditory hallucinations may also occur..."

http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/7/1/50.full

"A Doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (DCJ) é uma desordem cerebral caracterizada por perda de memória, tremores, desordem na marcha, postura rígida e ataques epilépticos, e paralisia facial que dá a impressão de que a pessoa está sempre sorrindo (contração muscular involuntária) devida a uma rápida perda de células cerebrais causada por uma proteína transmissível chamada príon.

...A DCJ Clássica se apresenta em diversas formas...pela utilização de implantes (enxertos de córnea ou de dura-máter, por exemplo). Neste caso, ocorre uma invasão do corpo do paciente por um príon externo a ele...

...Em 1996 pesquisadores e o governo britânico reconheceram a existência de um novo tipo de CJD... porque atinge pacientes muito mais jovens, normalmente em torno de vinte anos e pela ocorrência, no início da síndrome, de sintomas sensoriais e psiquiátricos..."

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doen%C3%A7a_de_Creutzfeldt-Jakob

"The Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in Portugal:

"Sintomas motores e psiquiátricos
...foi confirmada por um laboratório português de neuropatologia – em Portugal, só há três laboratórios do género, no Hospital de Santa Maria, em Lisboa, nos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra e no hospital de São joão, no Porto. ..Segundo o professor José Pimentel, um dos maiores especialistas portugueses na doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, os primeiros sintomas são “dificuldade na marcha por lesão do cerebelo, movimentos involuntários esquisitos (tiques) ou dores específicas em zonas do corpo”. Associados a estes, podem existir também “sintomas psiquiátricos, como depressão sem motivo aparente”. A demência é inevitável, “mas na maioria dos casos surge já numa fase tardia da doença”...
...um grupo internacional de especialistas que se debruça sobre a Creutzfeldt-Jacob e que se reúne periodicamente em vários países."

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/fotonews/2468/pdf/Pagina%2011%20-%20Portugal.pdf

Translation

"was confirmed by a laboratory of neuropathology Portuguese - Portugal, there are only three laboratories of its kind in the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, in the Coimbra University Hospitals and Hospital São Joao, Porto. .....According to Professor José Pimentel, a leading expert in Portuguese Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the first symptoms are "in the gait of cerebellar lesion, bizarre involuntary movements (tics) or pain in specific areas of the body." Associated with these, there may also be "psychiatric symptoms, as depression for no apparent reason. "Dementia is inevitable, "but in most cases already appears at a late stage of the disease" ...
... an international group of experts that focuses on the Creutzfeldt-Jacob and which meets periodically in various countries. "


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