-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- (Please see attached article below….) Here at last, tangible proof that a significant proportion of “paranoid schizophrenics” are targets of covert technology (employing the technique of pulsed electromagnetic waves to effect changes in the electrical brain-state, or frequency modulated microwaves to create the sensation of hearing in one’s brain). It has been found that an artificially generated magnetic field can block certain psychotic symptoms even where medications are ineffective! The mind-control technologies have remained top secret even though they have been used by counterintelligence services around the world against people considered to be subversive (spies engaged in espionage, terrorists, drug traffickers, etc. -- although of course there are no practical safeguards to stop innocent people from being targeted). ** Running covert operations designed to cause a subject to be diagnosed with mental illness happens to be one of the most effective ways of neutralising a counterintelligence target. ** Virtually all the bizarre symptoms of schizophrenia can now be artificially induced. Why does the new magnetic field treatment work? Quite simply - a protective “halo” is established around the patient’s head which disrupts the externally-delivered pulsed electromagnetic waves, therefore blocking attempts at artificial induction of psychotic symptoms by a hostile intelligence service whose goal is to mentally destabilise a target. In cases where this treatment is effective, the subject’s schizophrenic symptoms are likely to be of exogenous origin i.e. illness is artificially induced. Where it fails, this point to an endogenous, organic aetiology for the symptoms, i.e. a “genuine” case of schizophrenia. The distinction is an important one for the psychiatric profession to make, particularly when one considers that national security agencies are gaining ever more funding and manpower to pursue their covert activities! ++++++++++++++ Thursday, May 20, 1999 Pulsing magnetic field might ease imaginary voices in schizophrenia By MALCOLM RITTER -- The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schizophrenia patients whose medication couldn't stop the imaginary voices in their heads gained some relief after researchers repeatedly sent a magnetic field into a small area of their brains. About half of 12 patients studied said their hallucinations became much less severe after the treatment, which feels like "having a woodpecker knock on your head" once a second for up to 16 minutes, said researcher Dr. Ralph Hoffman. The voices stopped completely in three of these patients. The effect lasted for up to a few days for most participants, and one man reported that it lasted seven weeks after being treated daily for four days. Hoffman stressed that the study is only preliminary and can't prove that the treatment would be useful. "We need to do much more research on this," he said in an interview. Hoffman, deputy medical director of the Yale Psychiatric Institute, is scheduled to present the work Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Not all people with schizophrenia hear voices, and of those who do, Hoffman estimated that maybe 25 percent can't control them with medications even when other disease symptoms abate. So the work could pay off for "a small but very ill group of patients," he said. The treatment is called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS. While past research indicates it might be helpful in lifting depression, it hasn't been studied much in schizophrenia. In TMS, an electromagnetic coil is placed on the scalp and current is turned on and off to create a pulsing magnetic field that reaches into a small area of the brain. The goal is to make brain cells underneath the coil fire messages to adjoining cells. The procedure is much different from electroconvulsive therapy, called ECT, which applies pulses of electricity rather than a magnetic field to the brain. Unlike TMS, ECT creates a brief seizure and is performed under general anesthesia. ECT is used most often for treating severe depression. In TMS, the magnetic pulses are thought to calm the affected part of the brain if they're given as slowly as once per second, Hoffman said. He and colleagues targeted an area involved in understanding speech, above and behind the left ear, on the theory that hallucinated voices come from overactivity there. The treatment can make scalp muscles muscle contract, leading to the woodpecker feeling, he said, but patients could tolerate it. Headache was the most common side effect, and there was no sign that the treatment affected the ability to understand speech, he said. To make sure the study results didn't reflect just the psychological boost of getting a treatment, researchers gave sham and real treatments to each study participant and studied the difference in how patients responded. They also tested different durations for each treatment, starting with four minutes. Patients rated the severity of the voices -- a term combining frequency, loudness and the resulting distress -- on the day after each treatment. The real treatment did far better than the sham one when both were given for 16 minutes, but not when they were administered for briefer periods. On a scale of zero to 10, with 10 being the severity patients had before the study began, the real 16-minute treatments led to an average drop of 3.8 points. Sham treatments made no significant difference. Dr. Mark S. George, a TMS expert at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, agreed that the results are preliminary and must be confirmed by further work. But he called them exciting, saying, "You have to sit up and take notice." Hoffman and colleagues have begun another study to see if giving more doses of the 16-minute treatment will improve results. +++++++++++++++++++++ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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