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How schizophrenia develops: Major clues discovered
Nat'l Institute of Mental ealth ^
| 10/16/07
| by Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD, Hsien-Sung Huang, PhD student
Posted on 10/17/2007 1:50:41 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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Exciting news.
To: crazyshrink
Now if only Scientists could discover how Liberalism develops ...
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posted on
10/17/2007 1:52:05 PM PDT
by
sono
(Remember when Health Insurance was a Carry Permit?)
To: crazyshrink
The voices in my head agree......
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posted on
10/17/2007 1:52:27 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
To: Red Badger
Roses are red, violets are blue. I’m schizophrenic & so am I.
To: crazyshrink
Wow, this is really exciting.
I agree.
Me, too.
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posted on
10/17/2007 1:55:25 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I would like to know what we are talking about.")
To: crazyshrink
So much for talk therapy.
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posted on
10/17/2007 1:55:43 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: crazyshrink
Fascinating, and thanks for posting. These mechanisms are so complex that even once they're identified the practical problems of adjustment pose a major challenge to medicine. How much, for example, is too much, and what happens when overmedication turns out to cause worse effects than the original problem?
I had the highly educational good fortune to be involved in a very peripheral way with this sort of study with respect to the immune system, and the exquisite delicacy of the machine is mind-boggling. My hat's off to the researchers.
To: DirtyPigpen; scott7278
Your dissociative disorders are confused with your schizophrenia.
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:08:46 PM PDT
by
crazyshrink
(Being uninformed is one thing, choosing ignorance is a whole different problem.)
To: Red Badger
Beat me to it. BMTI.
Bump To The Top. BTTT.
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:20:07 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq— via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.))
To: Kevmo
The voices in my head are ROFLTAO!.........
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:23:22 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
To: crazyshrink; Red Badger
One of the voices in my head stutters. It drives me crazy. He’s constantly going, “K k k ki kill y y y your f f fam fami...” And I’m saying, “WRITE IT DOWN A**HOLE!”
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:29:54 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
To: All
Headline:
Link between schizophrenia and MoRon.org, dailycuss, Huff'n Puff Post, mediasmatters university studies claim.
Too much dependence on feeeeeeeeelings, said one researcher.
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:32:33 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: crazyshrink
This really is an exciting development — if we could find a way to develop new antipsychotic medications, or perhaps work to somehow improve the existing ones like Clozapine to reduce the side effects, the results could be tremendous.
We now know that Clozapine corrects the changes in Mll1 activity...hopefully, we will see new studies about the effects on GAD1.
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:34:44 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I would like to know what we are talking about.")
To: scott7278
I can see the day when nonoprobes can be sent to the defective gene(s) and cause the gene to correct itself. It would be the near end of so many of today’s medical anomalies (ADHD, diabetes, thyroid, etc.)
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:45:56 PM PDT
by
crazyshrink
(Being uninformed is one thing, choosing ignorance is a whole different problem.)
To: crazyshrink
Plus, no more worrying about low compliance rates brought on by the various side effects.
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:53:45 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I would like to know what we are talking about.")
To: scott7278
Agreed. We could rid ourselves of the use of many drugs even.
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posted on
10/17/2007 2:56:45 PM PDT
by
crazyshrink
(Being uninformed is one thing, choosing ignorance is a whole different problem.)
To: trisham
Oh I disagree. yeah talk therapy as a cure for a number of things has been on the skids, and deservedly so for a long time. But I think the talking cure still has a role in helping people adjust to a lot of ailments.
Just off the top of one of my heads, someone who has suffered from schziphrenia for a couple of decades and then is cured by whatever cure comes from this research (please God) could maybe use some company in putting his life back together and dealing with the stresses that normal peple deal with.
If we imagine somebody who was struck with some kind of infantile paralysis before he learned to walk, and then imagine the paralysis is cured, we can see that curing the paralysis hasn't cured the patient. It's just gotten him to where he can be cured, by learning to walk and to run.
Also, just 'cause you have measles doesn't mean you don't also have a cold or a sprained ankle, and curing the measles won't address those problems.
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posted on
10/17/2007 3:22:39 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: Mad Dawg
Just off the top of one of my heads, someone who has suffered from schziphrenia for a couple of decades and then is cured by whatever cure comes from this research ************
LOL! You may be right. :)
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posted on
10/17/2007 3:25:58 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: crazyshrink
GABA is interesting stuff, thought by some to be in short supply in brains of alcoholics and by others to assist in transmitting signals between eye and brain in aging people—at least in aging lab chimps. Article in The New Scientist a couple of years ago. At about $5 per bottle and available at health food stores, it’s worth a try. Yes, it seems to work for my eyes.
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posted on
10/17/2007 4:55:08 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: Billthedrill; crazyshrink
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posted on
10/17/2007 5:01:26 PM PDT
by
Veto!
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