New Life (Found) In Schizophrenia Study

IOL ^ | 8-23-2002

[muir_redwoods]

What a thought. Something so terrible and debilitating as schizophrenia may be no more than a parasitic infestation. And a new form of life discovered in the process. Curiouser and curiouser.

[blam]

"Something so terrible and debilitating as schizophrenia may be no more than a parasitic infestation. "

Yup....and what else might it be doing?

[gitmo]

We'll see.

[Tunehead54]

Aliens! Wonder if tin foil blocks their "voices"?

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[philman_36]

But...but...we've been assured that marijuana use can stimulate the symptoms of schizophrenia, not some spherical particles.
"This result provides genetic evidence that marijuana use can result in schizophrenia or a significantly increased risk of schizophrenia," lead researcher Hiroshi Ujike stated.

[SauronOfMordor]

It would be interesting to find out how it's passed on, and whether there are genetic factors which would make one more vulnerable to infection by these thingies

[Grammy]

Perhaps these are also what cause liberalism.

[DainBramage]

Leo wondered why the voices in his head

kept telling him to eat salad....

[Cachelot]

Yup....and what else might it be doing?

Hmmm.. wonder if there are more than one variant of these critters? We may have the explanation of both Democrats and Islamics here. Spinal Tap, anyone?

[Stentor]

I guess they figure, that if they can get away with the HIV-AIDS hypothesis, they can get away with anything.

[bourbon]

"They are not any of the usual viruses or bacteria that have been found," Wetterberg said. "They are more like something like the prion which is causing mad cow disease - but it took 15 years until it was found out what that really was."

I assume this article is talking about prions. I don't know why they don't just come out and say it.

Also, haven't we known about these things for some time? I remember learning about them in AP Biology in high school some ten years ago. Not exactly a "new form of life" as the article says. Besides, I seem to recall, there is much debate about whether prions are living at all. I mean, if you can quibble over whether viruses should be included in the traditional taxonomies with other life (as many scientists do), the case for prions ought to be even more dubious.

[Minutes]

This could be an entirely new form of life..... a symbiont? Dax... Deep Space Nine?.....never mind....

[pabianice]

Sounds like the plot line in "Odyssey 5."

[aimhigh]

marijuana use can result in schizophrenia

Perhaps marijuana inhibits a person's ability to fight the parisite.

[cajungirl]

Interesting. Family studies do show a genetic link and they think a number of genes are involved so the load of genes is important. Schizophrenia is actually more than one syndrome,,schizophrenias is a better term and people use it now. The spectrum of severity is broad. Twin studies and adopted away kid studies, mostly done in Sweden, demonstrate the genetic linkage. Now the interesting thing is do these families pass on this thing. And important to remember, there are many more cases of Schizophrenia that have no genetic links, sort of like Altzheimers. Fascinating. Makes you wonder if when they say they are "possessed", they may be right.

[philman_36]

Perhaps marijuana inhibits a person's ability to fight the parisite.
Perhaps the study was BS from the start, to simply be used only to give support to the WOsD!
Occam's Razor.

[Al B.]

Perhaps the study was BS from the start, to simply be used only to give support to the WOsD!

Actually the story and study were to promote a new drug Merck is working on that affects cannabinoid receptors.

The author of the story got material from a Merck press release. I know that because he told me.

Another cure looking for a disease.

[philman_36]

Ah, a vested interest in the report. It figures.