Start From Emergency Doctor

Chapter 403

Therefore, the results of this inspection are extremely important.

Of course, because Qian Wei is only a person, even if he gets some key clues from him, he cannot be used as data.

Academic research must be based on quantity, and there must be enough samples as support for academic results to appear real.

Fortunately, Zhou Yuan’s original intention was to get some clues between depression and brain diseases from Qian Wei. Follow-up research must be carried out with the assistance of thousands or even tens of thousands of depression patients.

However, with Zhou Yuan’s current reputation, it should not be difficult to find thousands of depression patients who have resources to participate in the study.

Academic research is like this. When a person is unknown, every step is difficult and blocked everywhere. Once he has a reputation, there are even a lot of volunteers.

Does depression cause abnormal brain structure and function, or is depression caused by abnormal brain structure?

Qian Wei’s inspection mainly focused on; six locations.

The first is the hippocampus, which is also the focus of the examination. The hippocampus is the core part of learning and memory. Sensory information, experience, etc. are processed here.

The second is the amygdala. Since the amygdala provides advanced cognitive functions, it is also an important structure of human motivation. A person’s motivation to do something, as well as emotional control, fear, and nonverbal emotional expression are all related to the amygdala.

Depression patients have a more obvious feature, losing their motivation to survive, which may be related to the pathology of the amygdala.

Another indispensable structure is the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is a part of the forebrain, which regulates human fear, hunger, and sexual impulse. A very special symptom of patients with depression is that sexual impulse weakens or even disappears directly.

The other two structures are the head body and the fornix. The former is a relay station, between the thalamus and the fornix, and the latter is the channel for nerve fibers. The last structure is the thalamus, which can be regarded as a processing station for emotions and information, and is responsible for transmitting processed information to the brain.

What surprised Zhou Yuan was that Qian Wei’s hippocampus really shrank!

This is because the nerve cells have been damaged.

There are no major problems with the other parts, at least there are no visible problems with the naked eye.

The MRI film maps the white matter areas of Qian Weiwei’s brain. The volume of gray matter and the integrity of the white matter in different brain areas of Qian Wei can be displayed on it.

Although the gray matter volume of Qian Wei’s cortex has not changed significantly, the integrity of the white matter has declined, that is, the white matter fibers have been damaged!

These anomalies suddenly made Zhou Yuan’s research clear.

After returning to the office, Zhou Yuan immediately saved the film that had just been examined for follow-up observation and treatment.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

This is a pioneering discovery.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhou Yuan’s research on depression has reached a new height. In fact, some top psychiatrists have already studied the work Zhou Yuan is currently doing.

Just do a few checks and read a few reports. Anyone can complete it, as long as they have thought of this.

Like toe transplantation to reconstruct the thumb, most people thought that it could be transplanted to the finger by intercepting the toe, but in the end only Zhou Yuan succeeded.

The same is true for depression research. Many people are also guessing that depression may not only be a mental illness, but also be accompanied by physical changes, such as abnormal brain structure, brain area lesions, etc., but so far there is no real convincing Power research appears.

why?

First of all, how to prove that the brain lesions are not caused by depression, but the cause of depression? This is the most difficult problem to determine.

Second, there is a lack of sample data. It is too difficult to investigate patients with depression. Many patients with depression don’t like to communicate with others, let alone give themselves to researchers, they don’t even have the desire or hope to survive.

Qian Wei was able to agree to cooperate with Zhou Yuan, on the one hand, he was only in the initial stage of depression, and on the other hand, Zhou Yuan saved his life.

Moreover, Zhou Yuan has a language affinity.

If you don’t care about your professional knowledge of mental illness and only consider communicating with people with depression, Zhou Yuan may be the most suitable person for this task!

Soon, Zhou Yuan organized Qian Wei’s relevant information and his guess about the cause of depression into an email and sent it to Lin Mingde.

It is difficult for Zhou Yuan to find a way by himself. Lin Mingde is an expert in mental illness. With Lin Mingde’s help, Zhou Yuan is no different from standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Zhejiang Province.

Lingling’s family has just finished lunch, Lingling’s parents are already on the way to work, and Lingling’s grandmother has also gone out, starting the walking habit she has developed for decades.

Only one-year-old Lingling remained at home.

Children of this age sleep for a long time, and they are just sleeping. Adults don’t worry too much, so they leave Lingling behind.

At 12:30, Lingling’s family finished their lunch. Lingling’s parents were civil servants. Because the unit was busy dealing with the issue of demolition funds, they went to work early.

At the same time, Grandma Lingling also went for a walk.

At one o’clock in the afternoon, Lingling’s grandma opened the door and found that Lingling, who was originally lying on the bed, had fallen to the ground and was motionless.

Grandma Lingling stepped forward and shouted desperately, but Lingling was still unconscious, and Lingling’s face had obviously turned black and extremely ugly.

The old man panicked instantly and immediately sent Lingling to the nearest Pujiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

After receiving the news, Lingling’s parents immediately left her job and ran to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed a traumatic brain injury. Pujiang Hospital is not good at surgery in this area, so she was sent to Zhejiang University Medical School, which is about an hour’s drive away. Children’s Hospital affiliated to the hospital.

Lingling’s injury is particularly serious. Although the doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine can do it, the success rate is not high. However, the situation is very critical at this time, and it is impossible to ask for foreign aid.

At three o’clock in the afternoon, Lingling’s rescue began.

After all-out treatment, Lingling was temporarily out of danger again and again. In just one hour, Lingling’s parents signed seven notices of critical illness.

Sudden respiratory failure, intracranial hemorrhage, high hypoxia, etc., countless extremely critical conditions appeared in this operation.

Lingling’s parents seemed to have been a few dozen years old, and they stared at the operating room blankly. Lingling’s grandma was most guilty, sitting on the bench at the moment, her eyes dull.

At four o’clock in the afternoon, the door of the operating room opened and several doctors hurried out. .