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Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday May 30 2017, @04:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-really-out-to-get-them dept.

MrPlow writes:

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From Inverse.com:

Schizophrenia strikes hard, vicious, and late. A person with the disorder can get all the way through childhood and their teen years without any hallucinations or major disconnects from reality. Then, right on the cusp of adulthood, symptoms of the severe mental disorder can emerge with powerful debilitating effects. Until now, doctors have had no useful, consistent way to see it coming.

But that could change, according to a massive JAMA Psychiatry study published on Wednesday. The research details the first major results from a new branch of personality research that might lead scientists to catch schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses early –- and perhaps even treat them before they emerge.

The researchers, led by University College London psychiatrist Joseph F. Hayes, Ph.D., found a significant link between a range of teenage personality traits and schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder (an illness that includes symptoms of schizophrenia and certain mood disorders), bipolar disorder, and a group of other illnesses lumped together as "nonaffective psychotic illnesses" (meaning they include psychotic symptoms but not mood disorders).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:09PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:09PM (#517829)

    The problem of course is that they don't practice that's why after years of training your mostly better off talking to Lucy, they don't know and they don't get better because there is no accountability after all who would believe a crazy person that they aren't getting sufficient or proper treatment, you give the sort of people that become shrinks and doctors this sort of power they will abuse it to the maximum most of them are already sociopaths.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:21PM (#517839)

    Doctors are required to engage in Continuing Medical Education (CMEs). Try again, know-nothing pleb.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:34PM (#517845)

      I was wondering when the white knights would come out, witness the reason shrinks and doctors can get away with their scamming

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 30 2017, @10:04PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @10:04PM (#517914) Journal

    So, is your distrust based on personal experience, or are you just slightly paranoid by nature? (not that that doesn't mean they aren't out to get you, but who can tell?)

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex