Supposing their Stressor make their Head Imaging-Map Change in Depression Patients.

*Akira Naito M.D., **,***Yasuhiro Shimotsuura M.D.. F.I.C.A.E.

*Psychosomatic medicine department of Iiduka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

**O-Ring Test Life Science Research Institute, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

***Shimotsuura Clinic, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan

 Key words: Bi-Digital O-Ring Test, head imaging-map, stress, depression

 Subject: There are many reports about relationship between Stressors and Symptoms in the psychosomatic disease. But in the situation that patient him/herself have no idea, which stressor is more important for the symptoms, we have been experienced lots of difficulties to detect that.

In this paper, we report that using head imaging-map by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (Omura Y., 1977-2000), we can detect their stressor which had directly effected to the symptoms and that imaging-map can be changed the size in case patient suppose their stressor. And that phenomenon can encourage patient to realize their relationship between mind and body, then patient can smoothly understand their solution. Following this, we show two cases.

 Cass 1.:  57 year-old female who had been taken more than 5 kinds of antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs as a depression patient for 2 years by near-by doctor. Chief complain was “ I hate staying by myself, Palpitation attack me and my mind goes mad, I am always thinking about the way of suicide.” Patient’s Beck Depression index was 42/63.

In the first interview, we found areas where BDORT open in the frontal and parietal lesion. We used subjects (family member, working circumstances, and friends), as a stressor to make patient supposing. Her BDORT-open area was enlarged by her supposing friends. This phenomenon encouraged patient to realize relationship between thinking them made her symptoms worsen, which she did not think important at first. We did not change any drugs she taken and just observe by using BDORT every other weeks. Now her complaint was decreased.

Case 2.:  32 year-old female who had history of admissions to another hospital for acute abdomen. And she had negative study of FGS and CF in May-Jun ‘00. In 5th Jun, patient JCS had decreased to 1-2, she was admitted again. But patient and her family had anxiety about admission to the hospital where doctor said “The reason is unclear, no abnormal finding was detected.”

The reason why they come to their family physician, our hospital.

Patient’s consciousness level was 1-1 in Japan coma scale, she closed her eyes and can only communicate by replying to the question. She also had anxiety about fired husband. We diagnosed she had depression, so we did head imaging-map by BDORT. There were BDORT-open areas in frontal, parietal and around hippocampus lesion. In case she supposed the scene of admission to that hospital, BDORT-open area were enlarged. When she supposed the scene of resting in home, that area were shortened. And antidepressant, clomipramine made area vanished. That was why we recommended patient to discharge that hospital and to rest in home and give her alomipramine.After that, patient had made good recovery and now she can do daily life by herself.

                Case 1                                                               Case 2

 Discussion:

1.       We report that using head imaging-map by BDORT, we can detect their stressor which had directly effected to the symptoms, even patient him/herself do not know that. And that imaging-map can be changed the size in case patient suppose their each stressor. That phenomenon can encourage patient to realize their relationship between mind and body, then patient can smoothly understand their solution to the problems.

2.       In a depressive patients, we can often detect BDORT-open areas in frontal, parietal and hippocampus lesion, and these two patients also had that phenomena.

3.       These findings should be re-checked in other study. And we should certificate the relationship between these BDORT-open areas and physiological change in the brain.

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2. Yasuhiro Shimotsuura et al: kyoumei vol. 2: pp12-20, 1988