Jerry? Andy? Re: Brain Map?

[Guest guest]

Hi and all,

You mention that your son had the French Porphyrin test done to detect heavy

metals. I am going to do this same test in a few weeks.

How accurate would you say it is? Is there anyone else with experiences with

this test?

Thank you,

Tony

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From: RowenaM <jerry_montgomery@...>

Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 8:48:57 PM

Subject: [ ] Jerry? Andy? Re: " Brain Map? "

Good evneing, Ty,

I don't know if you saw my follow up e-mail. The brain map was not used to

detect heavy metal issues. My son had lead and mercury issues as shown on his

French Porphyrin test.

I was stating that my son had lead and mercury issues.

Sorry for the confusion,

Jerry

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> > > > I had a brain map performed on my son. He has lead and mercury.

>

> There is no way to 'map the brain' to figure this out.

>

> Ok, let's be sure about this, please. I had a qEEG performed on my son and he

is currently undergoing neurofeedback also. The psychologist never mentioned

that the qEEG (which does print out a 'brain map') could detect heavy metals.

Andy seems to say that the Quantitative EEG can't pick up that sort of info.

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> Jerry, what were you told? Perhaps there's something new here to understand

that you can teach us. Could you double-check with your practitioner on this

one? If it's a new technique, I want to know about it. And, if possible, I would

want to have a reference to a study or document to bring in to my son's doctor

and pursue this angle. TY!

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[Guest guest]

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> Is this " brain map " the same as a " spect " scan? Does anyone know?

>

I had a Spect scan by Dr. Amen's clinic several years ago. I understand that

they are looking for areas of the brain that are either excessively active or

underactive. They provide a 3-D image that represents the activity levels in

the brain.

This is a quote from his site and a link to his library of scans. All teens

should see the swiss cheese like scans of drug addicts.

A small amount of this compound is injected into the patient's vein where it

runs throughout the blood stream and is taken up by certain receptor sites in

the brain. The patient then lies on a table for 14-16 minutes while a SPECT

" gamma " camera rotates slowly around his head. The camera has special crystals

that detect where the compound (signaled by the radioisotope acting like a

beacon of light) has gone. A supercomputer then reconstructs 3-D images of brain

activity levels. The elegant brain snapshots that result offer a sophisticated

blood flow/ metabolism brain map. With these maps, physicians have been able to

identify certain patterns of brain activity that correlate with psychiatric and

neurological illnesses.

http://www.amenclinics.com/brain-science/spect-image-gallery/spect-atlas/brain-s\

pect-imaging-an-introduction/

http://www.amenclinics.com/brain-science/