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"A young honors mathematics university student undergoes a brain scan. The doctor is shocked when the scan reveals that the young man has almost no brain! His cortex—the part of the brain that is the seat of intellect, perceptual awareness, and memory—is barely a millimeter thick, having been squashed to almost nothing because of undiagnosed hydrocephalus. However, even without this crucial brain matter, the young man has always functioned normally, with an above-average IQ." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"New York magazine's cover that week sported an image of the Dalai Lama posed in front of rows of computers showing colorful brain scan images. Dressed in traditional monastic robes, with hands clasped and a serene (if slightly puckish) expression on his face, the Tibetan leader had an array of EEG electrodes pasted across his head. " - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"That might require a brain scan to show a mass or a tumor, a chest x-ray to show a tumor, a biopsy to further define the character of the tumor, or a laboratory test to show a chemical abnormality of the blood, urine or other body fluid. When one has a patient with symptoms that persist but no abnormality can be found, one has not proven that there is disease. "ADHD, invented in committee in 1980 at the American Psychiatric Association, has never been proven to be a disease. The whole concept of how to define 'attention' is problematic. There is no specific work to show us what it means." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"No ethical physician will make believe he or she can use a brain scan to diagnose a psychiatric problem. While psychiatrists are eager to make believe they are treating real diseases, they rarely admit that they are causing them. Medication madness is a real neurologic disease—one that my medical and psychiatric colleagues are far too eager to ignore. MARKETING MYTH: "THE DRUG ONLY UNMASKED YOUR UNDERLYING PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER" DRUG ADVOCATES often claim that that drugs can only "unmask" preexisting psychiatric disturbances rather than cause them." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Specifically, although such factors as evidence of stroke via confirmation by brain scan was included, the evidence from trials of high quality overall was insufficient. More well-designed and large randomized controlled trials to test the herbs effectiveness for stroke are needed, the authors conclude (Zeng, 2005). Tinnitus Results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study revealed that administration of Ginkgo biloba extract was not effective in the treatment of patients with tinnitus." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Using MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) to monitor brain activity of a group of students, a game was rigged so that the subjects would feel rejected—an emotional pain. The brain scan indicated that the locus of this kind of pain was in the center of the brain in a structure known as the cingulate, together with parts of the right prefrontal cortex.1 (We will see later in the chapter on the left and right brains how the right prefrontal area is the higher processing locus for feelings.) The cingulate is also key in processing physical pain." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"Implication: Because medications may interfere with brain scan results, more study is needed to confirm these findings. Ropinirole should be considered as treatment. Among the most likely candidates are younger patients who experience motor fluctuations and dyskinesia from levodopa. Important: Ropinirole has been shown to cause side effects, such as sleepiness, nausea, hallucinations and, in rare cases, odd behavior, including compulsive shopping and gambling." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The truth is that there is no objective test for determining depression, schizophrenia or any purely mental disorder—no blood test, urine test or brain scan. The Chemical Imbalance Theory Many of those familiar with the research in this area speak of the "chemical imbalance myth." My concern with this phrase is that it implies that there is no evidence that brain chemistry is related to mental problems. The evidence is obvious and overwhelming (and no one actually questions the fact) that the mind can be harmed by disease." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"None are ever shown a blood test or a brain scan or any scientific proof of their child's supposed chemical imbalance of the brain. Why? Because they don't exist. Most are never told that the amphetamines used to treat ADHD are drugs of addiction with a startling range of adverse side effects and unknown long-term effects on developing minds and bodies. These parents are denied their right to informed consent about their child's treatment. Many children are naturally inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "No tumor or conspicuous wasting was seen on the brain scan. It had to be something qualitatively, functionally wrong with the cerebellum. I showed movies of the affected children to groups of neurologists. All agreed that they had a cerebellar disease but none could identify it further. It was only with the passage of years and the appearance of spider-like veins on their eyes, face, and ears that the diagnosis of ataxia-telangiectasia, or Louis-Bar Syndrome [7], the only such case in my 33 years of practice, was diagnosed." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "Or, was it with knowledge of the Nasrallah study of 1986 that treatment with Ritalin and the amphetamines was the likely cause of the brain atrophy, that they (all ADHD brain scan researchers) intended to replicate that study, time and again, and portray the resultant brain atrophy/shrinkage, not as due to the drugs, but as the "proof" that ADHD is a disease—proof they never had, proof they needed to justify the continued prescribing of billions of dollars worth of Ritalin and amphetamine "treatments" to children who were, in fact, entirely normal until their "treatment" began." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"In fact, doctors cannot diagnose depression from a brain scan because there are no consistent differences from "normal" brain scans. If depressed brain scans showed differences, such as a reduced metabolic rate in the frontal lobes, it would by no means demonstrate a biological cause. Far more likely, it would indicate that depressed feelings produce a flattening of emotional activity and hence brain activity. It is similar to the condition of a muscle that isn't being exercised; its metabolism will be much lower than that of a muscle that is being exercised." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"And that's exactly what they have done with their anatomic-structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scan research from 1986 to the present time. [10] On May 13, 1998, F. Xavier Castellanos of the NIMH confessed to me (FB) in a letter, ".. .we have not yet met the burden of demonstrating the specific pathophysiology that we believe underlies this condition." He was responding to a letter of mine where I asked him for proof that ADHD was a real disease." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Most of the ad is taken up by the side view of the head of a smiling woman whose brain is portrayed as a fiery red, green, and yellow rendition of a brain scan. The page blazes with the message that depressed people have an abnormal brain scan that is made normal, or even better than normal, by Prozac. Buried in the woman's hair in tiny print is the following statement: "This image is an adaptation of a PET scan of a normal brain. Prior history of depression is unknown." This in effect confesses, "We're intentionally giving you the wrong impression." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"When we did a brain scan on him, we saw that instead of the normal 4.5 centimeter thickness of brain tissue between the ventricles and the cortical surface, there was just a thin layer of mantle measuring a millimeter or so. His cranium is filled mainly with cerebrospinal fluid." Lorber's provocative findings suggest that we need to reconsider our long-held beliefs about how the brain works and the physical foundation of human intelligence." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"She's made an appointment for her son to have a brain scan at the facility used by the speaker, but her first problem, she says, is getting him there. She's not sure she can even locate him when it comes time for the appointment. This mother's exhausted air compels sympathy, and I am impressed by her persistence in rescuing her son, but given her son's age and apparent lifestyle, I find it difficult to believe that they would find salvation in a brain scan, an ADD diagnosis, and a Ritalin prescription." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.)

"The page blazes with the message that depressed people have an abnormal brain scan that is made normal, or even better than normal, by Prozac. Buried in the woman's hair in tiny print is the following statement: "This image is an adaptation of a PET scan of a normal brain. Prior history of depression is unknown." This in effect confesses, "We're intentionally giving you the wrong impression. Brain scans have nothing to do with depression and Prozac." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"But the experimenters were shocked when a radioactive brain scan revealed that this simple act of recognition and discrimination lit up 5 to 100 million of the cat's neurons at a time—one-tenth of its entire brain mass!14 This experiment showed that the same neurons must be used for many different memory networks simultaneously. Otherwise, there would be room for only ten complex tasks in the cat's entire brain. Memories are stored not in the cells themselves but in the overall pattern of electrical signals firing between cells. How are these patterns preserved?" - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "While conducting a radioactive brain scan on one synesthetic subject, Cytowic was shocked to see a wholesale diversion of blood flow from the cerebral cortex as the man entered a synesthetic experience. "We have never, never seen anything like it," Cytowic later remarked.3 The cortex, or "gray matter" is usually considered the most human part of the brain, responsible for higher intellectual thought." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

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