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

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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: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:49PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:49PM (#517851) Journal

    That trend exists, but it seems to be a conscious product of a system of control, ie., if I benefit from a system that funnels the fruit of your labors to me, why would I ever want you to think that the world can be any other way?

    There's another trend churning away below the surface of that narrative--incredible potential for productive independence. Its salients are the maker movement, open source, and additive manufacturing. Most of us haven't really plumbed its depths yet, despite our being intelligent and educated, because we're not conditioned to think that way or approach the world that way. From the moment we were born we were told to toe somebody else's line and do what we're told, to go work for someone else and give the best of ourselves to some invisible power (of whatever variety you like). The potential is there, though, to unlock the greater part of human genius which has always been blocked by self-interested parties.

    Who knows which trend will win out in the short- to medium term. I know the tension is killing me.

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    Washington DC delenda est.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:23PM (#517873)

    As you imply, self-interest is not the problem; rather, the problem is other-disinterest—when you don't care about others' rights.

    When a person truly fights to preserve his own rights, is he also necessarily fighting to preserve other people's rights; after all, if someone else's rights are protected, then how can one's own rights be ensured?