Where might I find this article? It sounds fascinating. I had temporal lobe epilepsy when I was younger that mysteriously disappeared over the past several years. No one knows why. I'm left with bipolar disorder. I wonder if there is any data somewhere to correlate my type of epilepsy with Bipolar. Anyhow, if you could tell me where to find the article, I'd appreciate it.
That would make sense for me considering my past history of **** that happened to my brain at really young ages.
I read an article once about people with mental issues sometimes having underdeveloped parts of their brains, but it wasn't dead...just didn't fully develop in the first place.
Probably a little late in saying this but I thought that the white matter in the brain wasn't so much dead as it is just a communications medium for the gray matter in the brain.
We are the exact same!!!! I have optical migraines (with no headache also). I also have MRI with a whole bunch of white matter hyperintensites in the front part of my brain, and my visual evoked potential test was abnormal. Neurologist has no clue why. I am actually getting a psyc evaulation on tuesday to see if there might be a connection, and to see if I might actually be bipolar. Please keep me posted if you find out anything.
I know that the best person to ask is a neurologist, I just can't seem to find someone that knows what my abnormality is!
As for the article's I was curious if anyone had read it, I thought it was so interesting.
First of all in a practical sense the question you are asking is best posed to a neurologist. Migraines are complex and have a variety of causes. As for the loss of brain tissue I read that article too. One thing I can say is that has nothing to do with your migraines. If you want to look at the photos I posted on my personal page there is one (in the public domain) of a PET scan of a brain with a person with schizophrenia and there are massive deficits in the area of the brain that processes thoughts. I may undergo a PET scan myself to see if a person on the next generation antipsychotics does not have or has less of those deficits but that would be in a clinical journal if published so I couldn't post that. Its more schizophrenia than bipolar that causes shrinking of the brain over time. There's nothing wrong with reading clinical articles. Its just generally not a good idea to apply them to yourself because it takes controlled studies on a large scale to determine conclusive results for anything.