That study has actually been around for a while (circa 2000). I had a PET done, well actually its less expensive cousin SPECT, and it showed similair things, as well as a pattern eerily similar to patients with Temporal Lobe Epilespy and Parietal Lobe Epilepsy. Really, I think people with hardcore, non-drug induced (and some with drug-induced) DP have a simple sub-clinical seizure problem. This is why the only meds to touch it are anticonvulsants, like Lamictal and Klonopin. The symptoms arent just similar with DP and TLE - they are the same. I imagine Janine will say that the brain findings are simply a product of our thoughts and actions. And in many cases, that could be true. Think about a certain thing, a certain part of the brain lights up. But in true brain pathology, you cant help BUT think about a certain thing, because that part of the brain is always lit up whether you want it to be or not. You'll be thinking existential thoughts about whether you exist, and you cant help it. In those cases you can have therapy until Freud's second coming, but you will always be using a flawed canvass. Certain personality traits and brain diseases are inherited. Chicken or egg? Nature or Nurture? I'll say that the brain scans came first and in primary DP, its the nature and not the nurture.
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