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In What Ways Are Childhood Schizophrenia and Autism Different, I think the
2008-06-09 05:23:00 newsRare, spontaneous mutations rife in schizophrenia casesMichele Solis 5 Jun 2008 2:15 PM Unlucky breaks: De novo mutations can account for schizophrenia in families with no prior history of the disease.Rare, spontaneous mutations could account for at least 10 percent of cases of schizophrenia, according a study published online last week1.These mutations are deletions or duplications of DNA segments, dubbed copy number variations (CNVs).Although submicroscopic in stature, CNVs have for the past two years been implicated in neurological disorders such as autism and schizophrenia in one high-profile publication after another.Since discovering a schizophrenia-related deletion in chromosome 22q11 more than a decade ago2, Maria Karayiorgou, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, suspected other CNVs could also play a role in schizophrenia, but detecting them was tricky.“It was not until very recently that we had the technology to actually look genome-wide fo...
Risk of autism schizophrenia other genetic disorders to offspring and futur
2008-06-07 22:30:00 Scientists are now discovering difference in copy numbers of genes associated with mental (brain) and physical illness such as diabetes, MS, cancers.The following paper was written in 2000 before the 9 large studies from around the world were written on paternal age and schizophrenia THE AGE OF THE FATHER AND THE HEALTH OF FUTURE GENERATIONS Word Count: 903 Leslie B. Raschka M.D., Associate Professor (retired), Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Address: 27 Edgecombe ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5N 2Xl, Tel. (416) 783-6938 2 Abstract Purpose: To assess the role of paternal age in the origin of genetic illness in future generations. Data Sources: All reference data originated in English language international scientific literature and findings of original research conducted by myself. Study Selection: Original articles published between 1938 and 1998 were selected according to the stated purpose. One article was written by myself. Data Extraction: The present paper...
Creativity in the Schizophrenia Spectrum
2008-05-28 15:41:00 DescriptionCreativity in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Special Issue of the Creativity Research Journal (Creativity Research Journal Volume 13, Number 1) By Louis A. Sass, David Schuldberg (Editors) Publisher: TF-LEA Number Of Pages: 136 Publication Date: 2001-02 Sales Rank: 1738414 ISBN / ASIN: 0805897399 EAN: 9780805897395 Binding: Paperback Manufacturer: TF-LEA Studio: TF-LEA Average Rating: 5 The articles in this special issue seek to re-examine the relationship between creativity and the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders in the wake of recent research and theorizing. They revisit both empirical and conceptual findings and issues regarding connections between the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders: schizotypy, psychotic-like traits, and creativity.Review: Fascinating ReadHaving been diagnosed with Schizophrenia at a very young age and after a few years recently experiencing a very good recovery I found this book to be insightful and inspiring. The book has a series of article...
Growth and schizophrenia: aetiology, epidemiology and epigenetics.
2008-05-25 04:14:00 Novartis Found Symp. 2008;289:196-203; discussion 203-7, 238-40.Growth and schizophrenia: aetiology, epidemiology and epigenetics.Malaspina D, Perrin M, Kleinhaus KR, Opler M, Harlap S.Department of Psychiatry, New York University School ofMedicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.There is a strong genetic component for schizophrenia risk, but it is unclear how the illness is maintained in the population given the significantly reduced fertility of those with the disorder. One possibility is that new mutations occur in schizophrenia vulnerability genes. If so, then those with schizophrenia may have older fathers, since advancing paternal age is the major source of new mutations in humans. We found that paternal age at conception is a robust risk factor for schizophrenia, explaining perhaps a quarter of all cases. The predisposing genetic events appear to occur stochastically in proportion to advancing paternal age, and the possible mechanisms include de novo point mutations or defective epi...
Paternal Factors and Schizophrenia Risk: De Novo Mutations and Imprinting
2008-05-24 18:36:00 This article has reviewed data that support an associationbetween schizophrenia risk and advancing paternal age.As such, schizophrenia may be one of a number of neurodevelopmentaldisorders caused by de novo mutationsin the male germ line. This mutation mechanism may contributea significant proportion of schizophrenia riskwithin a population in proportion to the demographics ofpaternal childbearing age. Furthermore, this risk mayhave implications for public health and for the primaryprevention of schizophrenia.The PDF of the paper is available for free.Schizophrenia Bulletin 2001 27(3):379-393;© 2001 by Oxford University Press and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC)This Article© Oxford University PressPaternal Factors and Schizophrenia Risk: De Novo Mutations and ImprintingDolores Malaspina, M.D., M.S.P.H., Associate ProfessorClinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York New York Send reprint requests ...
Schizophrenia symptoms
2008-05-23 06:49:00 Fifth, 22 May — brain Emerging strategies to treat preschool-aged children with significant clinical depression as well as those severely depressed adults who do not respond to standard treatments - such as antidepressants and psychotherapy - were highlighted at a recent conference. Emerging strategies for the treatment of children of preschool age with important clinical ...
Autism and Schizophrenia Linked
2008-05-19 00:01:00 Parenting > Autism and Schizophrenia Linked « Finding Music in Autism Autism and Schizophrenia LinkedMarch 31, 2008 04:36 PM ET | Nancy Shute | Permanent Link Could autism and schizophrenia be cousins? New research shows that people with schizophrenia have rare variations in genes that control brain development and that each person has a unique pattern of mutations. The finding is startlingly similar to new research on autism. Since April 2 is the first-ever World Autism Awareness Day, it's a good time to ponder what this odd conjunction says about building human brains—and, perhaps, how to fix them.Tolstoy famously wrote that happy families are all alike, but that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Thomas Insel, a psychiatrist who heads the National Institute of Mental Health, calls the new understanding that disorders like schizophrenia and autism have unique origins in each person a "Tolstoy moment" in mental health. Until very recently, the theory on diseases li...
Paternal Age, Schizophrenia, and Autism
2008-05-17 02:07:00 Paternal Age, Schizophrenia, and Autism http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/20-07/03/paternal-age-schizophreni-a-and-autism.htmlA good chunk of studies have accumulated over the past few years (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) that show a strong link between increasing paternal (father’s) age and risk of schizophrenia in children. One researcher has described the link as follows:We found that paternal age explained over a quarter of the risk for schizophrenia in the population. At the time, people were skeptical. But the findings have been replicated many times now, and not a single study has failed to find this strong relationship between father's age and the risk for schizophrenia. And at this point, other explanations for the relationship have been ruled out, including social factors in the family, prenatal care, and parental psychiatric ailments. There simply seems to be a relationship between paternal age and schizophrenia risk. Wow – one quarter of the risk for schizophrenia explained by pate...
Negative and Cognitive Symptoms in Schizophrenia Related to Low SES
2008-05-15 18:08:00 It's been apparent to me for a number of years that there appeared to be problems with the concept of schizophrenia. Sub-types of the disorder have very different symptoms. Some include paranoia, some do not. Some include prominent disorganization, some do not. Today, I tripped over an article with information on another part of the disorder that fits only into some sub-types. Symptoms are roughly divided into three groups, positive (i.e. hallucinations, delusions, racing thoughts), negative (i.e. apathy, lack of emotion, poor or non-existant social functioning), and cognitive (disorganized thoughts, difficulty concentrating and/or following instructions, difficulty completing tasks, memory problems). Positive symptoms are common around the world. Negative and cognitive symptoms seem somewhat more prominent in the west where stigma and social ostracizing is compelling. Most everyone agrees that there is an inherited element in the development of schizophrenia. There is also increa...
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Autism and Schizophrenia Linked
2008-05-13 19:27:00 Parenting > Autism and Schizophrenia Linked « Finding Music in Autism Autism and Schizophrenia LinkedMarch 31, 2008 04:36 PM ET | Nancy Shute | Permanent Link Could autism and schizophrenia be cousins? New research shows that people with schizophrenia have rare variations in genes that control brain development and that each person has a unique pattern of mutations. The finding is startlingly similar to new research on autism. Since April 2 is the first-ever World Autism Awareness Day, it's a good time to ponder what this odd conjunction says about building human brains—and, perhaps, how to fix them.Tolstoy famously wrote that happy families are all alike, but that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Thomas Insel, a psychiatrist who heads the National Institute of Mental Health, calls the new understanding that disorders like schizophrenia and autism have unique origins in each person a "Tolstoy moment" in mental health. Until very recently, the theory on diseases li...
1976 rare infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia
2008-05-13 18:13:00 The genetics, if any, of infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia Journal Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Publisher Springer Netherlands ISSN 0162-3257 (Print) 1573-3432 (Online) Issue Volume 6, Number 3 / September, 1976 Category Articles DOI 10.1007/BF01543463 Pages 209-234 PDF (1.5 MB) ArticlesThe genetics, if any, of infantile autism and childhood schizophreniaD. R. Hanson2 and I. I. Gottesman1(1) University of Minnesota, USA (2) Department of Psychology, McMaster University, L8S 4K1 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Abstract A critical examination of the data for and against genetic factors in early infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia is presented. The extreme rareness of both disorders made analysis difficult. No strong evidence exists implicating genetics in the development of childhood psychoses that begin before the age of 5. Family pedigree data fail to support psychogenic transmission because very few siblings of early onset cases are affected. Bi...
Chris Dodd and Fred Thompson much older dads autism and schizophrenia are
2008-05-12 23:10:00 Older Dads on the Campaign TrailPosted October 17, 2007 | 10:12 AM (EST) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Read More: Autism, Chris Dodd, Fatherhood, Fred Thompson, Older Dads, Older Dads Health Risks, Older Dads Younger Wives, Presidents Fathers, Schizophrenia, Breaking Living News As ABC News has recently observed, the presidential campaign features a pair of older dads, one on each side of the aisle.On the left, it's Sen. Christopher Dodd, 63, who has two daughters, age 6 and 2, with his second wife Jackie Clegg Dodd. And on the right, Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, 65, has two toddlers with his second wife, Jeri Kehn.Email Print Buzz up!on Yahoo!What exactly do we read in these tea leaves? First, that these two candidates mirror a demographic trend. Older fathers are on the rise. That's not too surprising. But here's the rub: the children of older fathers face particularly high risks of schizophrenia and autism. According to a g...
DNA Breakage Copy Number Variations Resulting in Autism/Schizophrenia with
2008-05-09 00:27:00 DNA Breakage and Failure of Apoptosis in Sperm as men ageFertility and Sterility Volume 80, Issue 6 , December 2003, Pages 1420-1430 doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.0-4.002 Copyright © 2003 American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Published by Elsevier Science Inc. Male factor Effects of age on DNA double-strand breaks and apoptosis in human sperm*1 Narendra P. Singh M.B.B.S., M.S.a, , , Charles H. Muller Ph.D.b and Richard E. Berger M.D.b a Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USAb Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Received 6 February 2003; revised 30 April 2003; accepted 30 April 2003. ; Available online 3 December 2003. AbstractObjectiveThis study was designed to explore the relationship between men's age and DNA damage and apoptosis in human spermatozoa.DesignSemen samples were collected from men between the ages of 20 and 57 years. Sperm DNA double-strand breaks were assessed using the neutral microgel electrop...
Not Only Are Autism and Schizophrenia Related They Are the SAME If you chan
2008-05-06 22:14:00 THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT VACCINES CAN'T CAUSE AUTIS! AUTISM IS A CATCH ALL TERM THESE DAYS A VACCINES CAN HURT SOME CHILDREN AND CAUSE BRAIN DISORDERSAutism and Schizophrenia May Be RelatedA new study supports the idea in autism research that people diagnosed with either schizophrenia or autism often share the same rare genetic mutations, Nancy Shute reports. Julie Daniels, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, looked at the health records of the parents of 1,227 Swedish children with autism who were born between 1977 and 2003. Those parents were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with schizophrenia as parents of children who didn't have autism. Other studies of early childhood brain development have shown that in both autism and schizophrenia, the brain development process is accelerated from birth to age 3.In the On Parenting blog, Shute explains why the new study--while scary on its face--is actually good news. Earlier, she reported on evidence ...
Autism and Schizophrenia Identical-- My Words
2008-04-29 23:00:00 Autism and Schizophrenia Have Same Molecular Basis Copyright © 2008 Cell Press. All rights reserved.Neuron, Vol 58, 165-167, 24 April 2008PreviewSchizophrenia: Genome, InterruptedRita M. Cantor1,2, and Daniel H. Geschwind1,2,3, 1 Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA2 Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA3 Program in Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USACorresponding authorRita M. Cantorrcantor@mednet.ucla.eduCo-rresponding authorDaniel H. Geschwinddhg@ucla.edu"The specificity of the identified variantsfor schizophrenia remains unknown. Forexample, CNVs in Neurexin 1 and recurrentCNV on chromosome 16p11 previouslyreported in ASD and other neurodevelopmentaldisorders were alsoobserved in this study. This is not problematic,but rather it presents a...
The Eels. And schizophrenia.
2008-04-28 07:29:00 Are the Eels a power pop band? Or a string-laden chamber pop band? Or are they an acoustic duo? Or a three piece punk band? The reason I ask is that I?ve seen this band play 4 times in the past 5 years and, on every occasion, they?ve been a completely different live proposition. They are, without doubt, the most schizophrenic of live bands. And that?s one of the many reasons why I love them to pieces. It seems as if Mark Oliver Everett (or Mr E or just plain E to everyone bar his bank manager) hears many voices in his head and listens to the loudest when he?s planning his world tours. It must be a kind of madness. Which, with is family history, kinda makes sense? Last night?s show in the Enmore theatre in Sydney began with a screening of a BBC funded documentary that traced E?s efforts to find out more about his father, Hugh Everett III, a quantum mechanics physicist who is credited with coming up with the theory of Parallel Universes. This theory has been embraced in popular cul...
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Is Schizophrenia A Prenatal Autoimmune Disorder?
2008-04-23 00:07:00 Scientific American has a very interesting article on growing evidence that implicates the immune system. The body's reaction to infection from the flu virus or even strep in pregnant woman and their unborn children may play a role in the development of schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism and other brain diseases. More than 200 studies have suggested that schizophrenia occurs between 5 and 8 percent more frequently than average in children born in the winter or spring. Scientists realized that viruses, which are most prevalent in the cold, dry winter months, could be one of the factors influencing this correlation. In 2004 Alan S. Brown, a psychiatrist at Columbia University, analyzed blood samples collected from 1959 through 1966 from 189 pregnant women, 64 of whom had later given birth to children who became schizophrenic. The women had had their blood drawn multiple times during pregnancy, allowing Brown and his colleagues to compare if and when the women had...
By: Dare To Dream
Why call Paternal Age Childhood Schizophrenia Autism? Why 36 required Vacci
2008-04-20 18:43:00 Scientific Misconduct Blog: Telling it like it is (Procter and Gamble)
Autism Schizophrenia and Older Fathers
2008-04-15 00:46:00 Autism and Childhood Development By Cindy RichFor 18 months, William and Elizabeth seemed like typical babies. Then the twins parents started noticing problems. Now, at age five, the children have autism.Something Happened and We Don’t Know WhyThere’s a light breeze over Rehoboth Beach as five-year-old Elizabeth Polanin takes her dad’s hand and walks toward the ocean. “That is one big pool, isn’t it, baby?” her father says.The water comes close, so Elizabeth steps back. She smiles and shakes a hand in the air, a sign she’s excited, then covers her ears as a wave crashes—like many children with autism, she’s sensitive to sounds.When the water recedes, Elizabeth walks toward it again, making high-pitched sounds and rubbing her hand against the back of her head. “You’re getting brave now!” her father says.Water is one of Elizabeth’s favorite things. She once took ten baths in a day. She’ll happily sit in her inflatable pool at home in Greenbelt and watch a t...
Paternal age and schizophrenia in dizygotic twins
2008-04-09 05:00:00 The British Journal of Psychiatry (2000) 176: 400-401© 2000 The Royal College of Psychiatrists Paternal age and schizophrenia in dizygotic twins L. B. Raschka 360 Bloor Street West, Suite 204, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X1 EDITED BY LOUISE HOWARD Crow (1999) reported that dizygotic twinning increases with parental age as does the incidence of schizophrenia. Our study of 574 patients with schizophrenia showed that the incidence of schizophrenia increases with paternal age (Raschka, 1998). Scientific publications reported increased incidence of at least 12 illnesses with increased paternal age. The rate of mutations in spermatogenesis increases with age (Penrose, 1955; Vogel & Motulsky, 1979; Raschka, 1995; Sankaranarayanan, 1998). Other age-related changes are also known to occur in spermatogenesis. The study of the effect of paternal age could yield useful information regarding the reported greater occurrence of schizophrenia in dizygotic twins. REFERENCESCrow, T. J. (1999) Twin studies...
Your Schizophrenia Questions Answered
2008-04-07 07:00:00 Imagine how hard it would be if your version of reality did not seem to coincide with what the general public believed to be reality. Living each day with hallucinations and hearing voices inside your head that are really not there. For millions of people around the world this is a normal day. They live, ...
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Reviewing The Various Types And Symptoms Of Schizophrenia
2008-04-06 07:00:00 Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis that shifts sufferers from reality to an often terrifying world of delusions, confusion, danger and hallucination. Often the symptoms of schizophrenia are described as “positive” or “negative.” Positive symptoms, such as delusions, hallucinations, thought disorders and involuntary movements may come and go. Negative symptoms refer to reductions in normal ...
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There is Hope for Schizophrenia Treatment
2008-04-04 00:00:00 You may have seen the Oscar-winning film, “A Beautiful Mind”. This film tells the story of John Forbes Nash, Nobel Prize winner with severe schizophrenia. The film details how Nash overcame years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Noble Prize. If you suffer from schizophrenia, watching this film may give you some courage and ...
People with schizophrenia may have the disease because they are unlucky eno
2008-04-01 07:34:00 Rare gene defects might add up to schizophrenia18:03 27 March 2008 NewScientist.com news service Ewen Callaway Tools Related ArticlesSchizophrenia dooms victims to repeat mistakes 22 January 2008 Childhood brain infections risk of schizophrenia 21 July 2007 Brain growth link to schizophrenia 12 August 2006 Search New Scientist Contact us Web LinksJack McClellan, University of Washington Daniel Weinberger, National Institute of Mental Health Schizophrenia, Royal College of Physiatrists People with schizophrenia may have the disease because they are unlucky enough to end up with an extremely rare combination of genes, according to a genetic study of the devastating illness.The comparison of schizophrenics and healthy people reveals that the former are far likelier to possess extremely rare gene mutations. It is these mutations, the researchers hypothesise, that underlie many cases of schizophrenia.About 1% of people suffer from the disease, which typically hits people in their twent...
Mutations and Schizophrenia
2008-03-31 18:03:00 A new U.S. study reveals that there is a relation between certain genetic variations and brain tissue mutations, and schizophrenia. Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Washington and the National Institute of Mental Health found that deletions, disruptions and duplications of normal genes were three to four times more frequent in people with schizophrenia. The findings of this study were published in the journal 'Science'.Schizophrenia, a debilitating psychiatric trouble, affects around 1% of the world’s population. The people with schizophrenia suffer from hallucinations, delusions, and unsystematic thinking, and are at risk for strange or odd behaviors. The disease deeply affects communal and work-related functioning and has massive public health costs.Researchers analyzed a variety of blood samples from 158 schizophrenia patients, plus 268 people that do not have any psychiatric problem. Researchers used a high-res...
What Is The Schizophrenia Disorder About ?
2008-03-31 07:00:00 Schizophrenia was ranked the “third most disabling disorder” - mostly because it not only involves hallucinations and delusions, but also leads to depression, confusion, lack of motivation and strained personal relationships. In recent years, the importance of behavior therapy and support nets has been stressed, in addition to the continuous dosage of a schizophrenia drug ...
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AN INTERSECTION OF WHAT IS CALLED SCHIZOPHRENIA AND WHAT IS CALLED AUTISM
2008-03-30 07:03:00 "Take away schizophrenia's hallucinations and delusions," said Jon McClellan, a child psychiatrist at the University of Washington and a leader of the study, published in yesterday's online issue of the journal Science, "and the symptoms that remain, the lack of social interest and withdrawal, are what we call autism. There is clearly an intersection of the brain systems involved." ..........
Gerald: Disorganized Schizophrenia
2008-03-14 18:12:00 Perhaps one of the most prototypical examples of mental illness is schizophrenia. Yet even though most of us have heard of this disorder, there is also a great deal of misunderstanding about what this illness involves. A classic example (this actually being one relayed to me by a friend volunteering at the local hospital) is the patient raving about a celebrity (in this case, Princess Diana) and constructing/wearing some sort of hat to prevent alien rays from reading his mind (i.e., a tinfoil-covered colander). Sure, there are some individuals who experience schizophrenia in similar manners, but often times it is not a grandiose, comic-book-like presentation.The following videos are excellent: I showed them in class today to illustrate a) the variety of symptoms that affected folks can have, and b) how destructive it is to relationships with family and friends. You can really sense the pain everyone is experiencing, and it made me a little sad to see how much he wants help, and how...
The Cult of Qelqoth vs The Cult of Qelqoth
2008-03-08 01:37:00 London, England — Former illustrious online publication, The Cult of Qelqoth, was questioned earlier this morning when confronted with accusations of ill health and mental deterioration. The allegations suddenly became official after their recent string of outlandish behaviour on the blogosphere. Last weekend, reports showed increased signs of paranoia and schizophrenia, sparking a ...
fathers' ages were strongly associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or
2008-02-29 23:51:00 INCREASING PATERNAL AGE.THERE ARE TEN STUDIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH THE SAME RESULT.April 12, 2001 Father's Age Linked to Risk of SchizophreniaBy ERICA GOODE The risk of having a child with schizophrenia may increase with a father's advancing age, researchers reported yesterday.The researchers, who examined the relationship between the fathers' ages and schizophrenia among 87,907 Israelis born from 1964 through 1976, found that the older the father, the more likely he was to have a child who suffered from schizophrenia, a devastating mental illness.Men who were 45 through 49, for example, were twice as likely to have offspring with schizophrenia or a related disorder as were men under 25, the researchers found. The overall risk of having a child with the illness, however, remained small."The finding is a very strong association of schizophrenia risk and father's age," said Dr. Delores Malaspina, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University Coll...
Pregnancy First Trimester Psychological Stress Linked to Schizophrenia
2008-02-29 05:44:00 A recent study reports the risk of developing schizophrenia is approximately 67% greater among children of women who have experienced the loss of a loved-one during their first trimester of pregnancy (but not prior to pregnancy and not after the first trimester). According to the report in the February issue of the Archives of General ...
Explaining Civil Society Schizophrenia
2008-02-28 17:47:00 Tuesday's post on 'civil society schizophrenia' seems to have struck a chord. Apart from some insightful comments, which you can read, I've also received a number of emails from NGOs telling me that they are as puzzled as I am at the different levels of formal integration of civil society into multilateral processes of disarmament and arms control; from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.Some have suggested interesting explanations for this phenomenon. For example, Piers suggests that, although the diplomats dealing with all of these issues may generally be the same people, perhaps the NGOs are not. In other words, might not different levels of acceptability (to governments) of issue-specific NGOs explain the different levels of formal civil society integration across these issue-areas? Daniel Feakes points out, however, that the same NGOs that deal with biological weapons issues also tend to deal with chemical weapons issues but t...
Civil Society Schizophrenia
2008-02-26 14:38:00 Reading John Borrie's daily postings from last week's Wellington conference on cluster munitions (see below), I was reminded of something that I have been mulling over in my mind for some time now but have not yet had the chance to examine properly. I am referring to a highly specific professional disorder that seems only to afflict disarmament diplomats. It's called 'civil society schizophrenia.'Last week in Wellington, 122 States slogged it out with each other and with the now formidable Cluster Munitions Coalition of NGOs to agree a draft text that will serve as the basis for negotiations on a new Cluster Munitions Convention. NGOs were present in Wellington's Town Hall for the entire duration of the conference. They intervened at will in the discussions and openly criticized certain States for attempting to weaken the Wellington text. NGOs provided valuable inputs to the debates based on sound research, interpretation of evidence and testimony of victims. In short, ...
Understand Mental disorder: Schizophrenia
2008-02-18 10:18:00 I know a person who was suffering from schizophrenia. The whole family was disturbed due to him and after several years of treatment he died. I tried to gather information about the disease and was surprised to know the acuteness of the disease and read how a person suffering from schizophrenia should be treated. If I knew more about the disease earlier I would have helped the patient and his family. Anyways I think that understanding the disease is important as this disease can effect anybody since there is no fact available how this disorder happens. Some say that it is genetic and some say it has environmental cause.According to National Institute of Mental Health one out of 100 people in the United States suffer from schizophrenia disease at some point if his life. Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. A person suffering from Schizophrenia have symptoms such as disorganized thinking, hallucinations, and delusions and these symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood in the...
Does Gender Affect Schizophrenia?
2008-02-07 14:00:00 Are there important differences in men and women suffering from schizophrenia? A paper published in a recent issue of Psychopharmacology Bulletin (2007:40) seems to suggest that there are. Women with schizophrenia tend to differ from males by having better functioning before the onset of psychotic symptoms, a later age at onset, a distinct symptom profile and better course of illness, and different structural brain abnormalities and cognitive deficits. Additionally, premenopausal women appear to have a superior response to typical antipsychotics compared to men and postmenopausal women. These gender differences appear to stem from the connection between hormonal and psychosocial factors. Estrogen in particular may play a protective role in women with schizophrenia and account for some of the gender differences observed in the disorder. Despite the potential benefit of estrogen in this population, women with schizophrenia appear to be at risk for hormonal diseases, either due to side...
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Stress during pregnancy linked with schizophrenia in children
2008-02-06 04:12:00 Researchers from the University of Manchester have concluded that women who go through extreme stress during the first three months of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to babies who will have schizophrenia later on in life.The findings were published in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, Science Blog reports. Ali Khashan and his colleagues used data from a staggering 1.38 million Danish births occurring between 1973 and 1995.Women were linked to close family members using a national registry, and the same registry was used to determine if any of these relatives died or received a diagnosis of cancer, heart attack or stroke during each mother?s pregnancy. Their children were followed from the 10th birthday through June 30, 2005 or until they died, moved out of the country, or developed schizophrenia.The risk of schizophrenia and related disorders was approximately 67 percent greater among the offspring of women who were exposed to the death of a relative dur...
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Pre-birth schizophrenia risk fear
2008-02-05 17:20:00 Women who endure severe stress early in pregnancy may be more likely to have children that go on to develop schizophrenia, research suggests. A University of Manchester team looked at data from 1.38 million Danish births occurring between 1973 and 1995. The risk of schizophrenia and related disorders was around 67% greater among the offspring of women who lost a relative during their first trimester. The study appears in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry. The findings appear to confirm the theory that a mother's psychological state can have a profound influence on her unborn baby. Previous research has linked stress in pregnancy to a raised risk of low birth weight and prematurity. And some studies have also suggested that the abnormalities in brain structure and function that are associated with schizophrenia may begin to form in the earliest stages of development. However, the researchers found no evidence that a loss of a relative at any other time during the pr...
Severe prenatal stress may increase schizophrenia risk in offspring
2008-02-05 09:10:00 Women who undergo an extremely stressful event, such as the death of a close relative, during the early months of their pregnancy are more likely to have children who develop schizophrenia, says a new study. Schizophrenia, a disabling condition associated with abnormal brain structure and function, is increasingly believed to begin in early brain development. Environmental factors, including those occurring during pregnancy, and susceptibility genes may interact to influence risk. “The common conception that a mother’s psychological state can influence her unborn baby is to some extent substantiated by the literature,” the authors said. “Severe life events during pregnancy are consistently associated with an elevated risk of low birth weight and prematurity,” they added. In the study the researchers used data from 1.38 million Danish births occurring between 1973 and 1995. During the study period, mothers of 21,987 ch...
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Smoking pot can lead to schizophrenia Posted By : Sharon Bell
2008-02-03 17:02:00 Smoking pot can increase your risk of getting schizophrenia. The risk becomes higher when the drug is used by people under the age of 21. More: continued here
More on Schiz OCD
2008-02-02 23:48:00 The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated February 6, 2008:This is an update to a previous post about schiz OCD, which is a particular subtype of OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, an anxiety disorder which I suffer from. Fred Penzel, one of the world's top experts on OCD, wrote to me and chided me for writing about all these different types of OCD, saying that they were all just the same thing.Well, I will beg to differ on that. Sure, they are all just the same thing in a way, but it is important to elucidate the different types for differential diagnosis - in order to help clinicians to determine what is the proper diagnosis for individuals. I say this because people with many OCD subtypes are often misdiagnosed. The misdiagnosis is usually psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.Harm OCD is the fear that one is going to hurt or kill som...
By: Robert Lindsay
Effective Community Care System
2008-02-01 11:41:00 Lehua Kalani, is a thirty-five-year-old Hawaiian woman who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. 1 She was a patient at the Wai’anae mental health clinic both before and after the innovation discussed in this chapter. Her story dramatizes how community residents from a deprived area in a state where an effective community care system had ...
Global Warming Schizophrenia
2008-01-23 16:20:00 Global warming reducing hurricanes in U.S., report says Intensifying one of the hottest debates in science, a new report concludes that global warming is diminishing the number of hurricanes that strike Florida and the rest of the United States. The study found that the planet’s oceans have been warming for more than a century. No surprise there, but this may be: Those warmer oceans are producing stronger crosswinds that tend to suppress the development and growth of hurricanes, the scientists said. [source] A couple of years ago global warming was going to increase the number of hurricanes in the United States. If there had been more hurricanes, do you think there would have been a report blaming global warming for the increase? It’s almost as if The Church of Global Warming™ is making this up as they go along. Tags: global-warming, climate-changeShareThis
What Causes Schizophrenia?
2008-01-22 14:00:00 Given that stigma surrounding mental illness is largely shaped by popular assumptions about how mental illness is caused and treated, there is surprisingly little research investigating those assumptions in the general population. A paper presented in the January 2008 issue of Comprehensive Psychiatry shows the results of a preliminary study examining the most commonly reported causes of schizophrenia in a sample of 127 urban African Americans. The study participants were asked to endorse items from a list of 30 factors, some of which are congruent with current psychiatric views of schizophrenia, whereas others are not. The results tended to complement previous research in finding that the five most commonly reported causes were: disturbance of brain biochemistry (49.6%), drug/alcohol abuse (42.5%), hereditary factors (40.9%), brain injury (40.2%), and avoidance of problems in life. Approximately 47.9% of the participants endorsed one or more unorthodox or supernatural factors as a ...
By: Providentia
The Sights and Sounds of Schizophrenia
2008-01-15 18:40:00 Found this video from onemansblog. Many years ago, my dad was diagnosed with Schizohprenia, though from how he described it to me it didn’t seem to be like this video. However, if you listen to it and turn the volume up, it’s easy to see what a strange experience it must be to have this condition. Read More...
schizophrenia - anyone any time
2008-01-13 14:49:00 Sunday 13 Odd sort of day, yesterday. All that sunshine triggers waves of amatory optimism, despite increasing CF. Add the wonderful love story in A Town Like Alice, and I could even believe again. Either that or someone was thinking romantically of me. Then comes a day of chilling cold, and the only naked flesh on view ...
Schizophrenia New Treatment
2008-01-09 21:28:00 The field of schizophrenia research has come alive with many exciting new potential approaches to treatment. From the introduction of chlorpromazine to the current day, all treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have had, at their core, a single treatment mechanism, the blockade of the dopamine D2 receptor. The introduction of clozapine in the ...
By: B-Health
Schizophrenia
2007-12-25 09:01:00 Schitzophrenia Apparently The Vengeful, Genocidal, Borderline Psychopathic God Of The Old Testament Wants You To Be Rich Meet Joel Osteen, the Prosperity Preacher SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Schizophrenia", url: "http://leftwingconspiracy.com/-2007/12/25/schizophrenia/" });
Does Marijuana Cause Schizophrenia?
2007-12-07 10:12:00 One of the longstanding arguments against the use of marijuana is that is causes mental illness, in particular psychosis. For a long time, cannabis was said to be associated with a particular entity called "cannabis psychosis". This entity has not been proven to exist.Cannabis has also been said to be associated with depression and anxiety. Some people do experience anxiety when they use cannabis. In many cases, they used it for some time before an anxiety reaction started. A cannabis panic or "paranoid" reaction is quite common amongst all types of cannabis users. Generally, users who start to regularly get panic reactions tend to stop using the drug.Anecdotally, many persons report relief from anxiety, depression, tenseness and anger from the use of marijuana. A friend of mine who was in jail for marijuana said he met many angry prisoners who used marijuana to reduce their anger. I known a number of young males who are chronically "hyper" - tense, restless and on the verge of ange...
By: Robert Lindsay
DiGi Funny Commercial - Schizophrenia Guy
2007-11-20 14:47:00 This is a really funny TV Commercial done by DiGi showing a guy with Schizophrenia or split personality. keke.. I love the cat Technorati Tags: DiGi, Malaysia, 016, 014, Digi Communication, YCF, Yellow Coverage Fellow, Brand, tvc, Commercial, ...
Shoe-Sizing Schizophrenia
2007-11-14 17:07:00 I tried on several pairs of shoes last night at the store. My favorites of the evening were the Erin suede peep-toe heels in the chili pepper color & the patent-leather Mary Janes in holiday red.Well, it appears that, after trying them on in the store, the Erin suede peep-toes I'd originally ordered from the catalog in size 8, (which were backordered until November 26th), are now going to be way too big. Apparently, I take a size 7 in this shoe. So I cancelled this backordered item & re-ordered the correct size. (They did have a 7 in another color, so I tried them on for sizing purposes.)Here's a picture of these shoes:This is also the case with the holiday-red, patent high-heeled Mary Janes. Here's a picture of those shoes:OK, this is really weird & frustrating. I thought I took an 8 in JCrew shoe sizes. So why do I take a 7 in their Erin peep-toes & Mary Janes? In their suede ballet flats & boots, I do take an 8. However, in some of their sandals I ta... |
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