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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: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:27AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:27AM (#518071) Journal

    While medical doctors use and practice a science that have at least a good shoot at being researched and practiced using deterministic and statistical truths. Ie predictions actually tend to predict reality not fantasize about it. The same cannot be said for shrinks and humanities. There is simple too many variables and measurement is unreliable. This open opportunities for charlatans.

    What I have noticed is that too many doctors are of the.. Doctor see statistical identifiers, Doctor act according to book of procedures which only contains fixes approved by for profit groups.

    With good sensor technology, networking, semantic knowledge, expert systems, AI etc. I'll suspect even doctors are gonna get a slight artificial competition. Some of these things can be designed and used without any approval. So the regulation approach may become undermined as well.

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