Hearing 'messages' embedded in noise could be early sign of schizophrenia

EurekAlert ^ | 10/24/07 | Yale University

[crazyshrink]

Brilliant, just brilliant.

[wastedyears]

We heard this crap with the Beatles, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath...

When will it end?

[John Jorsett]

I don’t know, there might be something to ... Snakes! SNAKES!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Does this include suspecting one thing is being said when something actually being spoken is difficult to hear? Or just non-speech noise?

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Indeed, I have episodes of ‘matrix(es) of unreality’ whenver my fiance tells me what our wedding is gonna cost.

$3500 for flowers?

Yeah, I got your matrix of unreality right here, pal.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"“A tendency to extract message-like meaning from meaningless sensory information can, over time, produce a ‘matrix of unreality’ ... "

Millions used to suffer from this condition:

[Kenny Bunk]

A tendency to extract message-like meaning from meaningless sensory information can, over time, produce a ‘matrix of unreality’ that triggers the initial psychotic phase of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders,”

Well, Doc, this definitely explains the relationship between television and the Democrat vote.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Should have read the article before posting.

What if they were able to decipher one of the speakers?

[LRS]

Only four words—“increase,” “children,” “A-OK,” and “Republican”—were consistently reproduced.

They must have subjected the subjects to Hillaryscreech...

[Bluebird Singing]

A-OK
increase
children
Republican

At the risk of sounding paranoid schizophrenic, I wonder why these words were chosen in this study at the Yale School of Medicine. ; )

[mysterio]

Poppycock. They know I’m able to hear the secret government codes, and they are trying to marginalize me.

[Bluebird Singing]

ha ha - great minds think alike

[Goodness]

This supports what I’ve concluded about “white noise/EVP” ghost hunters.

[evets]

[Clemenza]

That would explain Jean D’Arc.

[taxed2death]

Bummer.

When I hear my a-hole neighbor fire up his unmuffled lawn mower at 7 am on Sunday morning....the voices in my head tell me to go over and choke his scrawny little pencil neck.

Where do I check myself in?

[sean_og]

Messages embedded in noise? Does Ham Radio cause
schizophrenia?

[Getready]

Isn’t the same thing done when interviewing a patient
exhibiting psychotic symptoms? If the subject develops
a bizaare conclusion when presented with some “neutral”
words, one is more likely to diagnosis schizophrenia.
The same effect may be seen by screening individuals
before they have any signs or symptoms of schizophrenia.
If a young person doesn’t understand words, or misinterprets
rules, etc., isn’t that the same effect?
I would hope that there isn’t some type of serendipitous
confluence of words in the test words used which could create
some type of meaning or understanding
...like in free form poetry. or RAP music.
Good example...
Hurricane 5, New Orleans, flooding, city below sea level,
bad levees, malfunctioning pumps...BUSH’S FAULT(and he
hates black people, and is a blind tool of Halliburton)

[ears_to_hear]

Every one hearing “messages” from our politicians “noises “ are nuts too