Tag: schizophrenia
group name: brain-talk
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July 20, 2006 07:55 AM EDT --
My mother passed a few years ago, but when she was with us she carried a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The World Health Organization has termed schizophrenia as one of the top 10 most disabling . . . more
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March 19, 2006 01:41 PM EST --
Matthysse S, Baldessarini RJ (1972) S-adenosylmethionine and catechol-O-methyl-transferase in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 128:1310-1312.
Carol A. Tamminga, M.D., and colleagues at the University . . . more
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July 17, 2008 10:02 AM EDT --
Introduction
Many medical conditions can mimic schizophrenia including amphetamine psychosis, methamphetamine intoxication, mescaline intoxication, hypoglycemia, acute intermittent porphyria, . . . more
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April 22, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
According to psychiatrist Silvano Arieti, Salvador Dali was schizophrenic. Shown below are some of his brilliant (but weird) paintings:
Shown below is . . . more
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June 26, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
"Although the brain represents only 6 percent of body weight, it consumes between a quarter and a third of the body's oxygen and blood sugar. A very metabolically hungry organ, the brain is . . . more
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February 06, 2006 09:02 AM EST --
Why Orthomolecular Medicine?
One of the reasons I favor orthomolecular medicine is that you can't get tardive dyskinesia from it.
This is the late great Linus Pauling, who invented . . . more
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March 23, 2006 01:26 PM EST --
Dear folks;
The cure is a diet. However, it is not really a cure because you have to be on the diet for life, much like in diabetes. See my website, which is www.CraigOlson.bizhosting.com. . . . more
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March 09, 2006 08:42 AM EST --
BRAVE NEW BRAIN: A REVIEW . . . more
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April 15, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
Introduction
Much of my research on Shulgin has been done on the internet, which contains massive amounts of information about this drug guru. Shulgin is a professor at University of California . . . more
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April 15, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
Introduction
Heath used depth electrodes to find EEG spiking in the septal area in schizophrenia. Prior to this theories had blamed schizophrenia on the frontal lobes, although both theories could . . . more
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April 15, 2006 12:51 PM EDT --
Introduction
This is an extemely complex and controversial subject, yet we must attack it because it is very important. A large number of studies have shown a strong genetic component in schizophrenia. . . . more
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April 15, 2006 12:55 PM EDT --
Introduction
This author has long suspected catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes in schizophrenia. One such enzyme is tyrosine hydroxylase. However, it would be dangerous to inhibit this enzyme, . . . more
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September 29, 2006 08:47 AM EDT --
ANOMALIES IN THE BRAIN IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
by . . . more
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February 18, 2006 01:40 PM EST --
Psychiatry Res. 1998 Feb 9;77(2):105-12. Related Articles, Links
Immunophenotypic studies on atypical lymphocytes in psychiatric patients.
Kokai M, Morita Y, Fukuda H, Hatotani N.
Department . . . more
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March 17, 2006 08:56 AM EST --
Glutamic Acid
"Glutamic acid (glutamate) is an amino acid used by the body to build proteins. Under normal circumstances, humans are able to meet bodily glutamate requirements either from the diet . . . more
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March 22, 2006 09:11 AM EST --
Carol A. Tamminga, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Maryland detected in schizophrenics greatly reduced metabolism of glucose, the brain's main fuel, in two structures - the subcortical hippocampus . . . more
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April 16, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
In 1945 Dr. Ladislas Meduna of the University of Illinois found an "anti-insulinic" factor in schizophrenia. From 1945 to 1952 he wrote letters to Dr. Hudson Hoagland concerning a "hypoglycemic . . . more
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May 03, 2006 09:22 AM EDT --
Introduction
Sioli, Mariyasu, Wada, and Goldstein (working separately) all reported distortions and loss of cortical neurons in "dementia praecox". In 1913 Alzheimer published a study . . . more
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March 12, 2006 11:07 AM EST --
Introduction
Unfortunately this is a vast area, with many false theories. Some of these theories, such as the viral theory and the immunologic theory, have some evidence in favor of them even . . . more
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April 22, 2006 12:21 PM EDT --
Shown here is the chemical structure of dopamine, which is involved in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, possibly the Tourette syndrome, and possibly other diseases (autism, etc.). . . . more
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