In <6hroes$qef$1 at newman.pcisys.net> goldwolf at kktv.com (Charlie) writes:
I'm taking just a short break from preparing for possible SFN abstract
(deadline tomorrow) and final preparation for my May conference, so I
won't even try to digest and comment on any of your long complex post
except for the two excerpts below.
Well, maybe one other thing: qEEG is of interest as an "investigational
tool" but is highly controversial as a diagnostic procedure. You are
right in thinking there should be some follow-up: behavioral
observation and history (e.g. lack of addictive history, academic and
vocational performance, etc. as well as psychiatric); and thorough
neuropsychological testing, by someone truly qualified (the discipline
is in a developmental stage and there are few restricions on who can
assert that he or she is a neuropsychologist).
re two specific points:
>How could "a hypervigilent mental state" be defined and what can a
>person expect from the use of his brain under such conditions?
>I have no idea how someone using qEEG uses the term, but it sounds like
"hypervigilance" which classically has been assocviated with paranoid
disorders--i.e. more alert and vigilant and looking for significant or
possibly dangerous details or events which most people would ignore.
Conceivably, in he contex of qEEG, assuming the inference is
meaningful, it might reflect simply lackk of relaxation during qEEG.
>From the beginning of my second, and most recent bout with depression,
>I have felt the depression is secondary caused by my mental
>dysfunction as opposed to causing the dysfunction itself. I am now
>trying to address the basis to my mental dysfunction as I've
>experienced what depression does to one's functioning. This time it
>is extremely different from my first episode with depression in the
>mid 80's.
I may be reading too much into this, but are you perhaps describing
"atypical depression"? In my view, problems with concentration and
"reverse" vegetative signs (too much sleep rather than too little, more
rather than less eating, etc.), which may be more prominent than mood
changes such as one finds in classical depression (sadness, guilt,
etc.) do argue for the possibility that its depressive features are
indeed soometimjes reacctive--i.e. reaction to self-perceived impaired
functioning.
F. LeFever
New York Neuropsychology Group
>>Your input is most appreciated.
>>Charlie
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