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Lucid after MRI?

Posted by Neal S on October 21, 2004, at 12:32:04

My son, who has been going through severe psychosis was given an MRI with contrast. Almost immediately after the MRI, he became completely lucid for several hours -- his old self -- something the medications he had been taking have been unable to achieve. My question is: could the gadolinium in the contrast solution have had an effect on him -- or the magnetic field of the MRI. Something effected him. His doctor dismisses it as coincidence, but it's just far too coincidental to dismiss. Any thoughts?

Re: Lucid after MRI? » Neal S

Posted by Larry Hoover on October 21, 2004, at 15:59:05

In reply to Lucid after MRI?, posted by Neal S on October 21, 2004, at 12:32:04

> My son, who has been going through severe psychosis was given an MRI with contrast. Almost immediately after the MRI, he became completely lucid for several hours -- his old self -- something the medications he had been taking have been unable to achieve. My question is: could the gadolinium in the contrast solution have had an effect on him -- or the magnetic field of the MRI. Something effected him. His doctor dismisses it as coincidence, but it's just far too coincidental to dismiss. Any thoughts?

What you describe has been well noted before. There are experimental MRI treatment protocols for bipolar and psychotic depression. They're still trying to figure out how to optimize this serendipitous finding, as the optimal treatment use of MRI might differ from the optimal imaging protocol.

If I'm not mistaken, this MRI effect was also the progenator of rTMS, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression.

Lar

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