[Ati]

Actually, has any looked into PET scans and what scientists are doing with these? PET = Positron Emission Tomography.

A PET scan is able to measure what part of the brain is using glucose at a given moment of time, how much glucose etc. The idea is that the use of glucose identifies just what part of the brain is active. As we have heard, much of our brain is not being used most of the time.

One fascinating example from PET scan research is that when people who have panic attacks, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder improve in terms of their symptoms, their PET scans change. What's really fascinating to me is that the same changes seem to occur when the improvement comes after taking drugs, drugs and cognitive behavioural psychotherapy and cog-beh psychotherapy alone.

Now that last part is especially interesting. If a person gets rid of or significantly improves their symptoms with a disabling disorder of their psyche, through psychotherapy alone, is that not something like IM? I mean in psychotherapy, generally people learn different ways to think about aspects of their lives and different ways to act from day to day.

So, maybe, should research moneys be available, PET research could actually be done with IM.

In the meanwhile, I agree with all who feel that analyzing the how and the why is interesting, but actually getting into the process is likely to be much more fun, much more interesting and much more improving of various aspects of life than the analysis alone. Just my 2c on that!