[Velika]

Interesting article on psychopathy and brain trauma from Scientific American. I have noticed that as the MLC progresses, my husband's personality and behavior is increasingly sociopathic. I was curious why this might be and why in general the thought is that MLC gets worse before it gets better.

Can You Make a Sociopath? Either Through Brain Injury or Other Types of Trauma
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-make-sociopath-through-brain-injury-trauma/

[Thunder]

V, 

I think it's pretty easy to explain.  Their depression deepens.  They lose more and more control over their feelings so they get spooked.  Lash out with anger or go deeper inside themselves.

Remember MLC is the grand daddy of depressions.

[Velika]

I came across this article and thought of MLC. My husband around bomb drop used the regional accent of his youth, especially when he was being cruel and monstering. I have this confirmed as my brother-in-law ran into him around this time period and noticed the same.

The age of this man is interesting, but it seems that there is some contradiction in this snippet about the suspected source of the problem, other than neurological.

Foreign Language Syndrome: The Italian Who Became French
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/05/30/7834/#.V0-dJ9dFL7A

A 50-year-old Italian man who, due to vascular anomaly brain injury, began to speak and act as though he were Italian. Of course: "The authors don’t attempt to determine the neural basis of the patient’s strange symptoms."

This led me to a Google search on foreign language and foreign accent syndrome. One thing I read that stuck out to me was: "It seems that if one area of the brain is damaged, then another part of the brain assumes responsibility for its former functions." Maybe this applies in MLC as well, which is why we observe so many odd behaviors.

It's interesting once again how we will easily dismiss a seemingly sane, devoted family man ditching his family, acting like a teenager, changing all his habits and friends as a natural process (a natural one that somehow most people do not go through) — when really isn't that just as dramatic and odd? Of course acting French is more obvious and observable to others, but perhaps there is some connection in their origin or mechanism.

[kikki]

Interesting comment below the article about dissociative identity disorder.

Agree that it's considered 'normal' to bail and leave your family.
So traumatic for us because most people are clueless about the extent of what we are witnessing.

[Anjae]

"It seems that if one area of the brain is damaged, then another part of the brain assumes responsibility for its former functions."

Not always. It is not uncommon for the functions of a damaged brain area to be lost for good.


Because most people will have troubles knowing if the person leaving did it in a normal way = amicable and still being responsible, or in a MLC way. To us, it is obvious, but we need to remember that our MLCers will seem normal to most people.

Those around the MLCer are either the MLCer family and old friends who do not wish to loose their relative/friend, or people who come along with MCL and are MLC behaviour enablers.

I have friends in MLC. I have not stop being their friends. I also do not get involved in their MLC drama. I leave them to it. I do not condone their actions, but I stay aside. Granted, I have an advantage upon nearly everyone else, I know they are having a MLC and that the behaviours come from MLC.

[Velika]

"Unethical amnesia."
http://m.pnas.org/content/113/22/6166.full

Antisocial behavior in teens and brain development.
http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-teenage-brain-evidence-link-antisocial.html

Article about psychopathy and fear. Interesting mention of malfunctioning amygdala.
http://www.psypost.org/2016/06/brain-activity-study-suggests-psychopaths-not-fearless-thought-43373

[Velika]

Korean Researchers Find Key Cause of Bipolar Disorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed1g6UsN57M

06.18.16

A team of Korean researchers has found a key element for bipolar disorder, which is known to cause severe shifts in mood and behavior.

The finding is expected to open new doors for both diagnosis and treatment.

Park Se-young has the details.

Last September, a young man in Korea suffering from bipolar disorder killed his grandmother and injured his father at home.
This is one of the more serious expressions of the mental illness, which is more often associated with manic episodes.

There was once a limit to both diagnosis and treatment, but now, a team of Korean researchers has found a key cause behind bipolar disorder.

Without a specific protein, a problem occurs in nerve transmission, which leads to uncontrollable excitement or depression.

"In order to transmit signals, nerve cells need to form dendritic spines. The absence of the key protein results in a dramatic change in spinal formation, causing an imbalance in signal transmission."

When the researchers removed the protein in mice, they showed manic behaviors resembling those exhibited by people with bipolar disorder.

"By making the connection between the protein and bipolar disorder, we were able to create animal models. With the models, we can test various drugs and eventually create effective mood stabilizing drugs."

The researchers added that the protein not only causes bipolar disorder, but also contributes to autism and obsessive compulsive disorder.

They expect their finding to open doors to new treatments for a variety of mental illnesses.
Park Se-young, Arirang News.

[Ready2Transform]

Very cool!

[Upintheair]

My H's job, is to figure out how the brain works. Seriously. And sadly, he doesn't realize that something is not quite right in his head.

[Velika]

My H's job, is to figure out how the brain works. Seriously. And sadly, he doesn't realize that something is not quite right in his head.

That's the problem! How can you know something is wrong when the thing that is wrong is the part of your body that is supposed to tell you something is wrong?

I read that psychiatry is the only field of medicine where doctors don't examine the organ they study. I hope in the coming years all of this is better understood.