schizophrenia

Science whiz who became Intel's youngest intern has schizophrenia http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2017/03/science_whiz_who_became_intels.html#incart_river_mobile_home

I have considered myself a skeptic for a while, (not a very good one though.) Recently I found out about the phenomenon of "synchronicity," and so far I haven't found a rational explanation for it's occurrence. "Littlewood's law" and "the law of truly large numbers" do explain it pretty well for...

Lately we've seen some posts hereabouts that various of us have called word salad. Perhaps a clinical psychologist would be a little slower than a layman to use the term, but I think he'd eventually characterize the posts I'm thinking of in that way. Text in the form of "an apparently confused...

What does science currently believe schizophrenia is? I heard that one theory was that it was random impuses, and this might be true in some cases, but, I remember being so schizophrenic that I couldnt read the street signs and after a time hearing voices that were telling me what the signs...

More at: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/2/ Quite scary if true. :scared:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220121time_works_against_abortion_ruling/ "The family-court judge deciding whether to abort the pregnancy of a schizophrenic woman, who was spared this week from another jurist’s sterilization order, may have little choice but to allow the...

Well, as I said in my intro, I hear Voices - clinically diagnosed severe and persistent schizophrenia. I like to think of myself objectively as a case # for therapeutic purposes (metacognitive training). SZ is a thought disorder so I'm obsessed with 'ordered thought' or logic and critical...

Of course, the link between creative genius and madness and melancholia has long been known. Now brain scientists think they may have found one neurological basis for this. This is BBC news story on research carried out by scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who discovered a...

Assuming that it is obvious to anyone that has performed even a superficial study of the Symptoms of Schizophrenia ... ... that there is a correlation (not necessarily a causal link) between Schizophrenia and many of the various rambling dis-associative wooish claims posted in the JREF...

Yet more proof that the terms "New Age" and "Dark Age" are interchangeable. How's this for a bizarre and grossly irresponsible claim? It's from the website of Andy Porter, an English "psychic surgeon". Like his counterpart and fellow joint-founder of "The Unity of UK Psychic Surgeons" Gary...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/health/research/11brain.html?_r=1&nl=8hlth&emc=hltha2&oref=slogin I don't know if this link will work for you, I just grabbed it. In today's NYTimes, there's an article about a new theory of mental illness. They speculate that the mother and father's genes...

I've been meaning to post a thread on how to deal with a mentally ill poster for some time. My experience here gave me insight on how to help someone who is suffering delusions. I want to suggest an outline of how to approach this situation. I am hoping any future person suffering from...

I know autism is a hot topic, especially with many people concerned about what is the cause of autism. Here is a link to a news story by MSN highlighting a new study performed by Julie Daniels of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, linking autism with parents who have schizophrenia...

Pot Use Associated With Enhanced Cognitive Performance In Schizophrenics Sydney, New South Wales: Cannabis use is associated with enhanced cognitive functioning in schizophrenic patients, according to clinical trial data published this month in the journal Schizophrenia Research. Investigators...

Mr Garrison was right....:) http://society.guardian.co.uk/drugsandalcohol/story/0,,2135991,00.html pdf of the lancet article here and more on the study in the NS http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12363-cannabis-use-increases-risk-of-psychotic-illness.html Interesting meta-analysis which...

Pregnant women who get respiratory infections in the second trimester are up to seven times more likely to have a child with schizophrenia. There is also an increased risk of autism... http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22079262-24331,00.html

I find this theory intruiging, if far from convincing, because it addresses something which I have no hope of directly observing but which I find myself unexpectedly curious about - the personal mindset of individuals living in barely or unrecorded pre-history, who's behavior still has a...

How often have people who laid claims on psychic ability been suffering from schizophrenia? I for one, in a corner of my mind, believe to be God. I still think some day I will be recognised as a God, in a corner of my mind. This is just plain out honest. I hide all psychotic garbage from the...

My BS klaxons are going off, but it may be due to dealing with the 911 cters too much. http://psychrights.org/Articles/29medicalcausesofsz.htm

in the Romanian Orthodox Church: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4107524.stm It's the 21st Century, isn't it? :(

Smoking marijuana doubles risk of getting schizophrenia Smoking cannabis virtually doubles the risk of developing mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, researchers say. The New Zealand scientists said their study suggested this was probably due to chemical changes in the brain which resulted...

Schizophrenia and Nutrition - please help! Hey all This is a very serious request. My mother has suffered from schizophrenia for the last 7 years, and my uncle has onw suggested she go to a clinic in London that specialises in the treatmentof mental illness through 'optimum nutrition' - The...

All I wanted to do was go to the REI site go buy some sporting goods for xmas gifts, and I accidentally find this disturbing cartoon. http://www.rei.org/slice-200311.html I don't know what is creepier. The kid saying this... Or the mom answering this... Does it RUN IN THE FAMILY?? Now, back...

Just a thought I had. Schizophrenia has a physical effect on the brain. Therefore, can other aniamls, especially animals genetically close to humans, suffer from it? If so, what would the implications be for the 'consciousness' debate with the 'voices-in-the-head' effects of Schizophrenia? (I...