Posted by Hugh on November 1, 2014, at 9:27:54
In 2001, a research assistant at the Harvard Medical School-affiliated McLean Hospital noticed an intriguing pattern. One of her tasks was to escort study participants to and from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine where they received brain scans. All of the participants had bipolar disorder and were depressed; the scans involved an experimental form of MRI that measured the effect of medication changes on their brain chemistry.
The research assistant noticed that people came out of the MRI saying, I feel much better, remembers Michael Rohan, an imaging physicist at McLean and lecturer at Harvard Medical School (HMS). The assistant shared her observations with the lab director, who consulted Rohan because of his expertise in the biological effects of electromagnetic fields (see Magnetically Lifted Spirits, May-June 2004, page 18). Why, they wondered, might this type of MRI trigger a sudden lift in mood?
The complete article:
http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/11/mood-and-magnetic-stimulation
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