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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).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:29PM (2 children)
Bringing it back to TFA, it does seem that their tool could be stretched in just about any direction that was socially orr politically expedient at the moment. To that extent it is a pretty frightening prospect.
They appear to have three main scales:
So disinterest, lack of sleep, or boredom is bad then?
Too bad for the girl with the purple hair, or they guy refusing to get tattoos then?
“Emotional stability” refers to your ability to deal with emotions in a healthy way, in proportion to the events that spark them. A more emotionally stable person, for example, might read about a stressful news event, feel worried about it, but be able to carry on with their day. A less emotionally stable person might encounter the same event and get derailed, unable to put aside their worry to tackle tasks at hand.
So all the snowflakes in meltdown over a lost election really should be under medical watch?
Like most behavioral science (cough) the net is cast too wide. Perfectly normal kids are given drugs so the sit quietly in school, and mindless conformance (for the convenience of teachers) is a medical goal.
Scary indeed.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:56PM (1 child)
Sometimes staying calm and adjusting to conform are not sane responses.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:09PM
Exactly. Like ordering another round when the bandstand catches fire.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.