fMRI, other testing

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I don't want to start any long and difficult discussion but I disagree. If

anyone with good health insurance could find a research neurologist who has an

idea of what we're going through, an fMRI would certainly be in order. As would

testing for hippocampus/hypothalaums communication and at which point in

stimulus/response comes adrenal involvement. The cortisol production is not the

result of a hallucination, rather it is the result of ALL of our brains shooting

signals to the SAME inappropriate area of our brains. We are not suffering from

auditory hallucinations: we are suffering from mis-wiring in the brain. fMRI

will show what " real " parts of the brain are being activated. We are not a

collection of " one-off's " we have the same disorder. This disorder is auditory

only to the extent that we are all sensitive to the same sounds. This is a

neurological, not auditory issue.

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> For the benefit of Americans who have to pay for expensive tests, I would say

that fMRI is not going to give any helpful information. I am interested in

tinnitus and auditory hallucinations and have been to hundreds of academic

presentations, but do not think brain imaging helps much. With voices, the

speech areas of the brain light up as they do with real voices, but with no

indication of where the hallucination originated. With tinnitus, auditory brain

areas are activated, as they would if it originated in the ear, though one

interesting finding is that the brain dopamine circuits are also activated.

> I am sure TMY and MSD are connected, but how and in what order I do not

know. Sensitivity to sound in one ear only can only be due to a problem in that

ear. There is no known brain disorder that causes unilateral deafness, for

example.

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