Any Neuro studies of Meltdowns.

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Hey Guys and Girls. I've been searching for a while
now any Studies of fMRI's of a meltdown in action. Does anyone know of any I could look at.

i guess it would be a difficult study to do unless you could induce a genuine meltdown. i wonder what variation between meltdowns within and between individuals there is. There are of course ethical issues. i'll have a look and see if i can find something. Would be interesting

I was thinking that, ethics and logistics. From what I could find where seems to be little knowledge about what is going on and a lot of misconceptions.

I'd think it would be extremely difficult and traumatizing for everyone to try to stick someone in an MRI during a meltdown. It would be interesting to see, though.

Regardless of ethical issues, you couldn't logically do an fMRI study of a meltdown. Most meltdowns require stimming and/or throwing things and/or movement of some kind, and you have to be perfectly still inside an fMRI. The ever-so-slight natural movement from our heartbeats can throw off fMRI data, as can a head movement of merely a millimeter. There is no way that you could have a person sustain stillness during a meltdown. This is also likely why there are so few fMRI studies of acute bipolar I mania, my research interest. With psychomotor hyperactivity being such a key symptom of mania, fMRI experiments during this state are pretty much useless.

hypotheticaly if it was technically possible I'd consider it.
It would be a sucky day and basically involve engineering my own personal hell,
and having a couple of very big orderlies on hand
but I think it would be really useful, the 'Tantrum' thing is really annoying
and from the inside perspective there seems to be way more
going on then just getting angry.
But if you have to be perfectly still then it's inpossible. I'll wait for the MRI hat.

perfectly still being impossible all depends on the physical restraints available. Our current technology might not be up to it, but no telling what the future will bring. Undoubtedly either better restraints and/or equipment that is less sensitive to movement.

eventually some bright aspie will puzzle out a way, and when he/she does, I'd love to see the resulting data.

Nothing is impossible. never say never

I recall reading that a member here had EEG readings done during hers (hers are quite bad and she has severe autism), but nothing came up, unlike how they do with seizures.

I dont think I would want anyone to get a hold of me while having a melt down I just want to be left alone otherwise it would take 3 people to hold me down to get me in a ktscan machine lol. I would have to be sedated but then it would neutralized the meltdown thus no results. Unless I wake up all stress out again.