Showing posts with label Electroconvulsive therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electroconvulsive therapy. Show all posts

Monday, 23 September 2013

"life unworthy of life"...

Eugenics
 
"  Eugenicists considered epilepsy an inherited disorder, and many states sterilized epileptics to prevent its spread. This was another of the eugenicists' misinformed stands — epilepsy's causes are still not fully understood..."
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/1.html

"Aktion T 4," the Nazi euthanasia program to eliminate "life unworthy of life"...Patients had to be reported if they suffered from schizophrenia, epilepsy..."
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-euthanasia.htm

"The Nazi regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945 waged a veritable war throughout Europe to eliminate neurologic disease from the gene pool. Fueled by eugenic policies on racial hygiene, the Nazis first undertook a sterilization campaign against "mental defectives," which included neurologic patients with epilepsy and other disorders, as well as psychiatric patients. From 1939-41 the Nazis instead resorted to "euthanasia" of many of the same patients. Some neuroscientists were collaborators in this program, using patients for research, or using extracted brains following their murder..."
http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/21856571/reload=0;jsessionid=W57SSfOoGE7s1yrdvgNR.26
 Eugenics / Psychosurgery 
 
"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ...  Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain..." - José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, Spanish professor of physiology at Yale University

"He chose patients who were "desperately ill patients whose disorders had resisted all previous treatments" and implanted electrodes in about 25 of them. Most of these patients were either schizophrenics or epileptics."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodriguez_Delgado

 
 "...Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder. It was introduced in 1930s and has a controversial history; Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz is usually credited with being the originator of psychosurgery...Psychosurgery is a collaboration between psychiatrists and neurosurgeons. During the operation...a small piece of brain is destroyed or removed... interest in the neurosurgical treatment of mental illness is shifting from ablative psychosurgery to deep brain stimulation (DBS) where the aim is to stimulate areas of the brain with implanted electrodes."
 
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Psychosurgery.html

"Traces of Eugenic Thought in the Work of Egas Moniz... the language of eugenics was present in his work and allowed for connections between the sexual sciences, neo-Malthusianism and medical hygiene."
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5699/portstudies.28.1.0063?uid=3738880&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102568340953
 
 "... O autor revela que o peso do apoio da delegação brasileira no 1º Congresso  Internacional de Psicocirurgia, realizado em Lisboa – que foi responsável da moção que reconhecia o merecimento do Prémio para Egas Moniz –, terá sido de grande importância na decisão final..."
 
http://www.saude-mental.net/pdf/vol9_rev2_leituras1.pdf
 
  
"Egas Moniz e a História da Psicocirurgia, A. J. Gonçalves Ferreira...
...Nos próximos anos se verá se estes novos procedimentos Psicocirúrgicos, com a sua elevada precisão e reversibilidade de efeitos, comprovam ser tão fecundos e seguros como parecem ser nestes primeiros passos. Outros estudos, ainda experimentais, pretendem testar novos alvos e diferentes tipos de Neuromodulação para tratar outras afecções: epilepsia, depressão grave, dor crónica. Afinal a Psicocirurgia, cujos princípios mantêm a sua validade apesar do ostracismo a que foram votados durante décadas, parece hoje renascer das cinzas. O enorme progresso científico entretanto registado e as técnicas inovadoras que não cessam de surgir podem impulsionar de novo a Psicocirurgia para a vanguarda da Medicina do século XXI. E confirmar assim a genialidade do legado de Egas Moniz."
  
 
 "A História do Brasil compreende, tradicionalmente, o período desde a chegada dos portugueses até os dias atuais...O período compreendido entre o Descobrimento do Brasil em 1500, (chamado pelos portugueses de Achamento do Brasil), até a Independência do Brasil, é chamado, no Brasil, de Período Colonial...."
 
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist%C3%B3ria_do_Brasil
 
"Durante décadas, milhares de pacientes foram internados à força, sem diagnóstico de doença mental, num enorme hospício na cidade de Barbacena, em Minas Gerais. Ali foram torturados, violentados e mortos sem que ninguém se importasse com seu destino. Eram apenas epilépticos, alcoólatras, homossexuais, prostitutas, meninas grávidas pelos patrões, mulheres confinadas pelos maridos, moças que haviam perdido a virgindade antes do casamento. Ninguém ouvia seus gritos...Morriam também de choque. Às vezes os eletrochoques eram tantos e tão fortes, que a sobrecarga derrubava a rede do município...No início dos anos 60, depois de conhecer a Colônia, o fotógrafo Luiz Alfredo, da revista O Cruzeiro, desabafou com o chefe: “Aquilo é um assassinato em massa”. Em 1979, o psiquiatra italiano Franco Basaglia, pioneiro da luta pelo fim dos manicômios que também visitou a Colônia, declarou numa coletiva de imprensa: “Estive hoje num campo de concentração nazista. Em lugar nenhum do mundo, presenciei uma tragédia como essa”."
 
http://geracaoeditorial.com.br/blog/holocausto-brasileiro/
 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.297286210291876.72153.202514946435670&type=3
 
 
http://www.vhec.org/travelling_lifeunworthy.html
 
The idea of Eugenics were to make charts of families that were considered having problems by hereditary...example:
 

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...????









"Brain Research and the Murder of the Sick...1937-..."


"...planners began in the autumn of 1939 to distribute carefully formulated questionnaires to all public health officials, public and private hospitals, mental institutions, and nursing homes for the chronically ill and aged. ...
The form's sinister purpose was suggested only by the emphasis which the questionnaire placed upon the patient's capacity to work and by the categories of patients which the inquiry required health authorities to identify: those suffering from schizophrenia, epilepsy, dementia, encephalitis, and other chronic psychiatric or neurological disorders; those not of German or "related" blood; the criminally insane or those committed on criminal grounds; and those who had been confined to the institution in question for more than five years. Secretly recruited "medical experts," physicians--many of them of significant reputation--worked in teams of three to evaluate the forms..."

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200

"In Germany, during World War II, more than 120,000 handicapped children and adults were murdered for the convenience of the State. To gain scientific knowledge, the brains of many of these patients were examined by German neuropathologists."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17551614

"Heinrich Gross (14 November 1915 – 15 December 2005) was an Austrian psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime..."

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

"Dr. Julius Hallervorden... was a neuropathologist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. He ordered hundreds of brains from the victims of the euthanasia project to be sent to him from the killing hospital, Brandenburg-Gorden (Annas   & Grodin, 1992)."

"Dr. Sigmund Rascher was a Luftwaffe captain as well as a doctor. He was in charge of many of the "military medical experiments" at Dachau including the hypothermia experiments (where 300 people were killed) and the high altitude experiments. He examined the brains of Jews after their skulls were split open (while fully conscious) to see the effects of high altitude on humans (Hackett, 1995)."

"Dr. Bruno Weber was the chief of the Hygienic Institute. Interested in the interactions between human blood types, he injected his patients with a variety of blood types to observe the effects. Weber took the blood from weak inmates or killed inmates by letting them bleed to death (Lifton, 1986).  He also gave patients various barbiturates and morphine derivatives to see if he could brain wash prisoners and use mind control (Lifton, 1986).

http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/nazidocsandothers.html

"Heinrich Gross, 84,...He was responsible for signing hundreds of death certificates.
The brains of those who died are still kept in preservation jars in the hospital's basement. Dr Gross is believed to have continued experimenting on them until recently. He was allowed to keep the body parts of many of the children in a private collection.
...
Until last year he was the second best-paid forensic doctor working in the legal system.

...Years later he spotted the doctor on television talking about electro-shock treatment."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/26/kateconnolly

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. "


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

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

The return of the shock treatment....Portugal...

"Depois de terem sido praticamente abandonados na década de 70, os impulsos eléctricos voltaram a a ser usados nos principais hospitais do País para tratar doentes psiquiátricos. Sobretudo nas depressões graves. Em três deles, Santa Maria, Amadora-Sintra e Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, ...

...a opinião do psiquiatra  João Cabral  Fernandes. "É  um método grosseiro e desumano", alerta o especialista, sublinhando que por ser uma prática recorrente no Hospital Júlio de Matos...

...Já Maria Luísa Figueira, directora do serviço de psiquiatria do Santa Maria, garante que o método é eficaz."

Translation

"After having been virtually abandoned in the 70s, the electro shocks are back again, and in use in major hospitals in the country to treat psychiatric patients. Especially in severe depressions. Hospitals like Santa Maria, Amadora-Sintra and Coimbra University Hospitals...

...The opinion of the psychiatrist John Fernandes Cabral. "This method is crude and inhuman," warns the expert, that this is a common practice at the Hospital Julio de Matos ...

...however Dra. Maria Luisa Figueira, director of the psychiatric service of the Santa Maria, ensures that the method is effective. "

http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1369718

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar and Dr. Rudolph Schrot...

"Two neurosurgeons from the University of California, Davis have been banned from performing medical research on humans after they allegedly experimented on three patients without university permission...documents that allegedly show the surgeons obtained consent of three terminally ill patients with malignant brain tumours to introduce bacteria into their open head wounds in hopes that it might save their lives...the university has found that two of the three patients developed sepsis and died.
...One of the doctors, J. Paul Muizelaar, 65, holds a prestigious position as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery. Rudolph Schrot, 44, worked under Muizelaar as an assistant professor and neurosurgeon.
Muizelaar, however, doesn't believe he did anything wrong.
"Muizelaar reportedly said, "there are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs. We certainly didn't blatantly trample any rules."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/j-paul-muizelaar-rudolph-uc-neurosurgeons_n_1695562.html

"In 2008, the doctors proposed treating a glioblastoma patient with bacteria applied to an open wound to "attack the tumor," then later withholding antibiotics and letting the bacteria do its work.
Schrot contacted the FDA but ultimately was cautioned that animal studies were needed first...
And so the doctors continued with preclinical work, arranging for a rat study..." 
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/22/4648415/2-uc-davis-neurosurgeons-accused.html  ...a rat study where at least that we know 2 patients human beings were killed..

 Who are the people that this 
prestigious neurosurgeon with a position as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery talks when he says "there are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs..." and who are the human guinea pigs of those people...can they be epileptics/people with other type of brain tumours?????

Are the articles about medical research that they said that are made with animals made with human beings??????
Are human beings considered rats by some scientists, rats that they can play with and torture in studies similar to this :
"...Mice are exposed to an electric shock and learn to associate it with a neutral stimulus like the chamber in which they received the shock (contextual fear conditioning) or an auditory tone (cued fear conditioning).Memory is a high level brain function that allows organisms to modify their behaviour...RFID transponders (Datamars SA, Bedano, Switzerland) were injected subcutaneously in the dorso-cervical region under Isoflurane inhalation anesthesia"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230787/

Thursday, 1 January 1970

Dr. Herman Webster Mudgett...

Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term.In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which four were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 200.

...Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire...Mudgett graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in June 1884 after passing his examinations. While enrolled, he stole bodies from the laboratory, disfigured the bodies, and claimed that the people were killed accidentally in order to collect insurance money from policies he took out on each deceased person...

While in Chicago during the summer of 1885...After the completion of the hotel, Holmes selected mostly female victims from among his employees (many of whom were required as a condition of employment to take out life insurance policies, for which Holmes would pay the premiums but was also the beneficiary), as well as his lovers and hotel guests. He tortured and killed them...Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate. The victims' bodies were dropped by secret chute to the basement, where some were meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models, and then sold to medical schools. Holmes also cremated some of the bodies or placed them in lime pits for destruction. Holmes had two giant furnaces as well as pits of acid, bottles of various poisons, and even a stretching rack.Through the connections he had gained in medical school, he sold skeletons and organs with little difficulty.

...Holmes's victims were mainly women (and primarily blonde), but included some men and children...

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