[shrinkermd]

Great news if it works and works safely.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m of two minds on this subject ...

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m enthusiastic, but the voices in my head are skeptical.

[ConservativeMind]

I really didn’t think the author did a good job setting up the introductory portion of the article.

However, the insight about glutamate is intriguing.

[#1CTYankee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU_JyGBDeIc

[Red Badger]

The voices in my head approve!............

[joshhiggins]

I put Monosodium Glutamate on everything I eat and I'm sane.

And so am I.

[John Robie]

This is good news. It is very sad to see people struggle with mental illness.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I wonder if this drug would be useful in the treatment of autism????

[PurpleMan]

But, but, but....

I thought that the pharmaceutical companies, especially the big four - Merck, Pfizer, Glaxo SmithKline, and Eli Lilly, were the embodiment of corporate evil?

[wideminded]

A relative of mine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, although it appears to be a mild form. We have noticed that she thinks much more clearly when we get her to eat plenty of protein. I figure that she must need more of some particular amino acid than most people, but I don’t know which one. Maybe it is glutamate.

[Ken H]

A psychiatrist charged me $200 for a visit and told me I was schizophrenic. I paid him $100 and told him to collect the rest from the other guy!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A guy I got my Chemistry degree with worked in a lab in the early seventies that was analyzing the dialysate from schizophrenics who had been placed on kidney dialysis in an attempt to isolate any chemical compounds that might be causing their condition.

Funny thing happened... the schizophrenics lost all their symptoms while on kidney dialysis, meaning their kidneys were evidently not removing some waste product from their blood that was causing their hallucinations.

The research was very promising, but since the purpose of all pharmaceutical research is to turn human misery into a drug-revenue stream, there was no obvious way to make money from any cure that might be found, so the project was shut down.

[Getready]

It may help, trials and careful analysis of results/adverse
effects/long term effects, etc will hopefully allow
some more insight into control of the disorder.

My guess would be that “schizophrenia” will have other
neurological factors involved. But controlling some of
the symptoms would be a good step. It may allow patients
to have some insight into themselves, and be able to
notice when they are actually having “symptoms”...I have
seen some say that they don’t listen to the voices in the
head so much, since they recognize it as a “symptom.
So any more help in “clearing” their thought processes would
certainly be welcome.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl