What about orthomoleculer psychiatry. Linus Pauling and evolution can mean more siceptable to outside toxins or higher needs for certain vitamins than other individuals.
Part 4 - Further more after I explained this situation to a medical practioner who would have happily prescribed more medication to me I not only walked out of the examiners office without medication I left with an entry in my medical record that I am not a schizophrenic but a Christian.
Part 3 - I was diagnosed about 5 years ago as schizophrenic because I hear voices and have visions.
About a year later after reading the Holy bible I discovered that many of the people in that book could be diagnosed as schizophrenic by the description of events in their lives. They heard voices and had visions.
Part 2 - , it is clearly possible that a lot of people are being misdiagnosed. Deny Jesus and you become satans slave, accept Jesus as master and you become satan's enemy.
I put it to you that schizophrenia whilst a real illness is defeatable through faith in Jesus Christ.
Part 1 -You touched briefly on some people who claim the voices they hear are, number one Jesus or, number 2 satan. What you failed to do was explain why that could not be the case. According to the Holy Bible Jesus is alive and well and all those people in church pray to Him. In the same respect Jesus states that satan is real and is evil. Since the two of them are real
Last comment, violence is deff. no more of a risk in schizophrenia but there is variance. Early on I made many individual choices one was after reading about people with the diagnosis I committed to total non-violence. I think smart people with less empathy can also be capable of terrible violence. I generally find people with schizophrenia to be very empathetic and understanding. Most of the people I know understand me because we have a similar struggle and know unity combats delusions.hm
This is my theory: genes duplicate and the brain over-compensates, leading to genes tearing apart. I wonder if anyone wants to discuss theories. I'm really interested in genetics. My mom has paranoid schizophrenia and struggled with depression. She has no insight but had improved with medication very quickly, but goes from moments of being "normal" and moments of communication breakdown. I don't get it, but I hope someday we all understand it. Treatment returned me to normalcy, milder maybe.
I just wanted to understand how intelligence is related. I don't have maladaptive schizophrenia, I have adaptive schizophrenia it seems. I have high intelligence, don't get sick, and I can communicate well; studying mass communications in college. I go on tangents on essays sometimes, and I think abstractly even on medication. But I have adapted to the symptoms so well over time that I am 100 percent healthy. Is this extremely rare? My therapist said I have extreme insight and suggested law.
This lecture is informative esp. the part about immune system adaptations. I never get the flu, or a cavity, never broke a bone. I don't get sick and I went from paranoid to chizo-affective disorder. We are all unique of certain genetic differences such as Aspergers alongside Schizophrenia. I took the Sat at 13 and started out with about a 3.7 gpa. So throwing out theories of toxicity knowing I'm 100 percent healthy, and intelligence knowing I'm smart, gene copies and adaptation?
I'm not being funny but this guy cannot get inside other people's minds and know whats going on in their heads just like anybody. ALso does this guy beleive in people who have psychic abilitis and are subject to spiritual turbulence.
@swiyyahnm i don't believe there is such thing as a breakdown or even such can be defined. Feeling different yes but that is normal. TO class sombody as feeling a little different as a breakdown is unfair. Nature obviously intended us to be this way. you can live with it
Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.
I wouldn't trade artistic talent for sanity, but Vincent Van Gogh was blessed. Also, Jesus did not reproduce, but he still made use of his life. His traits were maladaptive yet we are encouraged to adopt those traits, some of us take this seriously and become a nuisance. Great lecture. I appreciate you. And...
Syd Barrett, Bettie Page, John Nash, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Cobain, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Tim Burton, etc. ... (Some are now listed as bipolar ('schizophrenia lite')).
Wow, look at all the confirmation bias rampant in the comments here. You can find exceptions to his lecture, bravo, this must mean everything he says is intended to be absolute,.... but real life isn't rock, paper, scissors. He's discussing tendencies, averages, and theory. Not law.
@MsLAB24 oh my gosh, please don't think I was trying to be smart with you. I really wasn't! I'm a psychology student and I'm planning on getting my doctorate because I want to help people with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. Trust me I understand that a lot of people with severe mental illnesses live relatively normal lives, but that doesn't disregard the things that are different with the brain and thought processes. Please don't think I was being mean :/
@EmilyR16161 i dont mean it that way but the guy is just quoting what he reads and future will point out new insights also the stigma he is feeding will dissapear, i am going to write a book about it.
@MsLAB24 i also believe milder schizophrenia has an evolutionary goal.. like it or not, not everything in life has to be easy to be right sorry for my weird ideas bt 1+1 isnt always 2 in psychology
He tells big time shit about language and the fact he says about schizophrenics not beable to think abstract and dwell into concreteness is vice versa!
@MainframeCobol well most i know are lost into delusions and methaphorical stories. nothing concrete about that! maybe there's different in schizophrenia
Quetiapine Sustained Release tablets I might Have come up with that Idea. I said to my Psychiatrist who was very paly with the Quetiapine that they should have a time release version of the drug much like a vitamin tablet I was using because I was suffering a massive burst of fatigue directly after taking drug but was more ok with it though the day. I came up with that idea in march 2004.
It's interesting you mention that a where a schizophrenic should be hearing random noise they here quite constructed hallucinations because sleeping too random noise is what I used to get rid of my voices and to maintain the effect I have to do this every so often. In fact I developed my own form of random number generation based on a function making use of the last digit of random numbers generated represented in different bases.
This guy must be looking at the schizophrenic mind as being fucking made of concrete.
Instead of dishing out the med's has this guy ever turned reasoning with the schizophrenic mind.
Child witicut (without prior knowledge) can cause these types of confusion. So if you were to explain to the Schizophrenic in detail where they are muddled and what the correct information is then there thinking can be improved.
By the way it might surprise one and all to know that Freud NEVER EVEN SUGGESTED that schizophrenia could be treated by his methods. Freud was a neurologist and since the start of the 1700's and those early autopsies, it has been obvious at least to that group, that schz. was not an 'emotional' disturbance but a neurological one.
In the following lecture that wasn't taped he explains how mild versions of schizophrenia and OCD underlie religion. The version from a previous semester is at watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
He also has a great lecture on depression at watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
@axelboldt I think that the idea that religion comes out of even mild mental disease, tends to discredit religion. My own personal idea is that human beings have a natural desire to have a belief in a higher power and that is hardwired into our brains. And while it's possible that some 'religious visions' were hallucinations of mentally ill people, I think it's more important what these visions meant to people, than exactly how they came about.
@thomasfaltejsek Yep, there is as much as 12% of a genetic difference between "identical" twins- making that label a complete misnomer. Also, the 40-50% likelihood of if one twin has it the other could also have it is a silly statistic when we know now that environment/illness/nutrition/physical activity/stress plays a role (60-70% influence) that accounts for more in development and outcome than genetics does (30-40% influence).
@valsharai We don't know any such thing, people just assumed that for years because they did not understand a single thing about genetics. And if someone told them what the research was disproving that they would cover their ears and not listen. There are hundreds of different genes involved in schizophrenia and it simply does not inherit like blue eyes with 1 gene. It has a very different pattern- plus many of the genes involved are copy number variations, these are mutated, not inherited.
@thomasfaltejsek You watch, when doctors and geneticists working together start realizing that there are people with the genetics for schizophrenia but ZERO symptoms or MILD at best - at that time, once again, your confidence in numbers will betray you. You will be FORCED to pay attention to environment against your own resistance.
@valsharai The inheritability/genetic argument begins to crumble when you realise that emotional environments are also repeated down through generations via habit and conditioning.
@Evilrolfharris Not talking about habit or conditioning. Not talking about heritability. Epigenetics! People are subject to different kinds of stress /inflammation, eat different foods, are given different medical treatments if /when sick, antibiotics being one of those types of treatments. The environment isn't some simple straight forward thing. Example: clone me 100 times, raise me in 100 different cultures- studying diet, activity, any antibiotic use- MANY different outcomes.
@valsharai I wasn't disagreeing with you about environment, I was just putting it a different way and highlighting how emotional and physical environments also get passed down through generations, mimicking and blurring the path of the genetic argument.
@valsharai You need to look at some of the more recent research on schiz. genetics. The only reason it was assumed 'activity' or 'environment' played any role in schz. was because people did not understand the genetics of it. Copy number variation researchers have pushed the genetic component of schz. up to 70%, and feel they will bring it to 100% within 5 years.
@whiterabit09 I dont know of any one place where all the most recent research is summarized - it is just a matter of keeping up with the new research results. The main problem is that since it is not inherited by one gene, schizophrenia has an odd pattern of inheritance - SO people ASSUMED it must be 'part environmental' because they did not know the underlying genetics. Being 'environmental' appeals to people too - people don't like the idea (for various misguided reasons) that it is genetic.
You are absolutely wrong about identical twins. There ARE two types - one identical, one semi identical but no matter what, none of them remain identical - copy number variations and mutations start the MOMENT the egg divides into two. Identical twins are not identical genetically at all. Once the egg divides, that is the end of the 'identicalness'. Read a little about genetics, you will understand what I'm talking about.
Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.
N: Adherence to concrete thinking is characteristic of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenics have lower rates of violence, making me wonder what Lobaczewski cites in his Political Ponerology when he claims that sociopathy is three times more common than schizophrenia.
Brilliance is not part of the disease although it is of its diagnosees.
Q:Why aren't each symptoms classifed as a disorder and then their structures knocked down? Is it okay to call the first few layers of the visual cortex its afferents?
@fractalres Untrue. Schizophrenia can happen to a person regardless of their IQ or intelligence level. The violence/schizophrenia connection is not exact. When schizophrenics are violent they tend to have very specific symptoms and characteristics, such as being off medication, but 'tend' does not mean all are similar. I will say, in having schizophrenics off medication in my home, I did learn to run fast..
@fractalres I don't like to focus so much on violence because there are already so many misconceptions. But...I really don't think it is an 'aberrant conceptual structure'. Schizophrenia affects perception, emotions, it can cause impulsive behavior - meaning the person just suddenly gets an irrestable urge to act in some irrational way - perhaps a danger to himself, perhaps to others. Paranoia, lack of medication, substance abuse, can all be factors.
@fractalres It is not true that schizophrenics have lower rates of violence, but the increase in violence is very slight, and reflects that it is not universal with schizophrenics to be violent. Factors that increase violence chance - young age, substance abuse, paranoia.
Just a few misconceptions in the lecture - suicide is all about a sudden flash of normal thinking, remission causes suicide, little evidence for glutamate/nmda theory, majority of homeless are schizophrenic (there IS high % of mental health problems in chronically, long term homeless, though), once over 30 one is virtually guaranteed not to get schz (not true for women who onset older, there is form of schz that occurs in older and much younger ppl)...I could list more, but running out of room.
@thomasfaltejsek the dopamine theory accounts for positive symptoms, the glutamate theory accounts for negative symptoms. Problems with NMDA, GABA and such account for anxiety. Glutamate is also a problem in relation to the gene that manages glycine; it is the most common gene shared between schizophrenia and migraine sufferers -- glycine is necessary as a co-agonist to bind with glutamate at NMDA receptor sites. Demyelination and glutathione metabolism are also noteworthy.
@thomasfaltejsek "The Link Between Immune System Dysregulation and Schizophrenia" Stress, inflammation, and schizophrenia "Stress induces overactivation of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, which is caused by excessive cytokine-induced glutamate release from astrocytes. Increased inflammation in the CNS also leads to impaired function of oligodendrocytes, which are damaged as a consequence of overexposure to cytokines such as TNF-α; this leads to impaired myelination."
@thomasfaltejsek If only I could lend you my non-medicated 30-year-old brain, you would know exactly how it feels, rather than merely reading and writing about it; though I do admit they have their value, the subjective experience would really open your mind.
@valsharai I have watched for 40 years, thousands of people, what avoiding medication does to them, and seen them in nursing homes after years of no medication - the results are not good. Not good at all. It is a very bad choice - many schizophrenics though, will not listen and that is the tragedy.
@thomasfaltejsek For the past decade, my treatment has been nutritional. Were you to meet me, you would never even know I had childhood onset schizophrenia and would likely say something outrageous to the effect that you don't believe I ever had the illness nor could I still, despite that I had auditory hallucinations between the ages of 8 and 22, have dealt with depression since the age of 7, withdrew from friends & family, was hypersensitive to stress, paranoid, anxious, etc
@thomasfaltejsek It's my understanding from a distance that you hold some compassion. I commend you for wanting what is best, and I challenge you to ask yourself if you truly know what is best. I challenge you to ask the question, "Are we really helping these people, this way?" Meanwhile, the consumer movement is picking up speed and we are learning how to recover and to thrive- not just get by on medication for the rest of our life. We are human beings, not psych patients.
Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.
@macnpepperjack lol, that's stupid. Schizophrenic is a proper term, it is nothing like nigger, which is deragatory slang. Do you have paranoid schizophrenia?
@JoshAlfred27 enlarged ventricles do not cause any compression - the ventricles simply enlarge because there is more space for them to expand into. There is no compression created.
@openwayhome not extremely. Some of his statements are a little outdated, overly simplistic or are 'clinical myths', but compared to the usual garbage you hear on the internet about schizophrenia it really isn't bad at all.
If forced to comment I'd point out he didn't mention some people are more afflicted with the illness then others and he seems to focus on the worst cases, also I'm surprised he mentioned nothing about studies on schizophrenics who have never had medications have a higher recovery rate then those that do medicate - I hope that's an over sight and not a funding issue :P
But hearing self castration was common place is surprising as I wasn't aware of that
@IronicallyVague And you are an expert at not getting the treatment you need, and not only that but insisting everyone else not get treatment. I have seen the results, many times over. Many funerals.
my girlfriend was diagonised with this last summer!She was hospitalized for 5months.For the last 6months, she has made a big improvement.Unfortunately now, she is slowly falling back.Life sucks!!!
@engineer14 hey buddy, try getting this book 'natural healing for schizophrenia' by eva edelman . my brother was diagnosed as well and we are trying to evade the medications and do it naturally.search for orthomolecular psychiatry...
@pkrishnametal And you will destroy him. It is irresponsible. As for orthomolecular - they toss him some random vitamin pills proven 90 years ago to have no effect on schizophrenia, and old cheap medicines most doctors have abandoned decades ago - what a farce.
@engineer14 try to stay loyal to her through the ups and downs. It takes time to learn to manage this illness and to find the right medications and doses. Too, while learning to manage the disease some backward steps are not unusual. Look for positive books about how to communicate and understand your girlfriend and you both will be happier.
I call bullshit on the goat story. Plus I'll point out that not all schizophrenics present this way. I am not very concrete at all. My loose associations manifest as more symbolic thinking. Like making mythology out of every sentence.
i'm diagnosed schizophrenic also. this is the exact burden on the psychiatrist this guy is talking about.
in japan they call it social integration disorder. if you're a christian talking to god and you go to church and talk to your priest about it, it's acceptable... especially if these dialogues seem to be adding to your productivity in your social relationships etc
this tribe had ideas where killing goats fit. the schizophrenic there went for a dramatically different approach
@claudius1713 The goat story is possible(what proof do you want? Him to hold up a goat skin with teeth marks?). Cognitive problems make it very tough at times to follow cultural norms, and it can be hard to pick up on social cues. Impulses can be strong - I came home one day to find my furniture painted bright pink, another friend's dryer was disassembled by his friend with schz. Things like that can happen, you have to relax and develop a sense of humor and acceptance.
I would really want to know what "slightly affected relatives" of people with schizophrenia have a value for Society. Sapolsky says he's going to discuss this "on friday", but i couldnt find any lectures for May 28 10 (which would be that fri.). Can anyone help me on that one? Besides that: a great lecture.. but what im not quite comfortable with is, that he claims schiz. as beeing a totally biological desease caused by dop.-disreg. Why is he totally disregarding the Chick-Egg-Dill. with that?
So if you Schizophrenic, generally a good thing to do is study language, common phrases and the metaphorical meaning of slang and colloquialisms. Study emotions people have and relate those to particular words. This way you can understand the abstract phrases and paraphrases people express without getting confused. Catalog the structure of social interaction and social ques. Study satyr and sarcasm and associations. I can hold conversations with strangers feeling rather plastic, but it works.
@EMPIRE1419 Standford is a Ivy League college so the courses are HARD. I would study my butt off though if i was in Standford, I'd finally have something worth living for.
just got a lecture about schizophrenia some weeks ago at my own university in germany... it was very interesting. reason why i tuned into this crap today and wasted about half an hour listening to this chauvinistic douchebag!
and it seemed to me, that he fully appreciates this "filter of distinction", pushing forward the thesis, that schizophrenic people are kinda damned in their loss of function to be usefull in any way for the society.
but as a biologist he shouldn't denie the power of the psyche to reorganize a vulnerable organism by setting in the right context.
however our concept of "self" needs to integrate schizophenic phenomena insteat of seperate them from the apparently "healthy"!
@majestic93 well, i didnt finish the attention, because it seemed to me, that the lecture was not scentificely elaborated enough.
the prof. universalised a lot about the pathogen aspects of the illness and therefore proofed theoretical knowledge only. he mentions how massively schizophrenic people are singled out, by giving examples of how unnormal they are regognized by the cognitive valid.
@daschamaeleon It certainly doesn't help that you only listened to the first third. Just to contextualise your hasty comments, how many books and scientific articles have you published ? How many decades of clinical experience do you have ?
To be honest, I had difficulties when attempting to understand your points of view here... wasted about two minutes listening to your ignorant, blowhard douchebaggery.
@blakerwalk so here is my epistemic caveat: philosophy of mind as well as psychology honors the schizophren by mentioning their 'seisomographic' abilities to reflect the generell public by its surroundings. in the end, our vulnerablility for 'chauvinism' might be the only instrument to develop a fair sensorium in recognise the ill right. the biological mechanisms of schizophrenia shoundn't be the foundation of judgement for you prime students! just trying to 'elaborate' correlations!
I think I'm gonna have to go with an experienced professor from a very prestigious University of the world, than that laundry list garbage that they put on the internet...I dont believe that schizophrenia or other mental disorders have anything to do with genetics, because it's not solidly proven..I believe it has much to do with a person's environment, stress, and social support
@marter2006 Schizophrenia has a strong genetic component. These conclusions have been reached from statistical analysis, and are not obtained on a whim or "guessed:" if your identical twin has schizophrenia, you have a 50% chance of succumbing to it yourself. This means schizophrenia is caused by both hereditary and environmental factors in a 50/50 split. It indeed has "much to do with a person's environment, stress" etc. like you mentioned.
@jd6735 That is an unwarranted conclusion that has been proven wrong. The genetic component is more complex and besides that, there are identical twins, non indentical(fraternal) and semi-identical, plus identical twins are not identical genetically in the first place.
@thomasfaltejsek "identical twins are not identical genetically in the first place." Your statements are without basis. Identical twins develop from the same zygote and are genetically identical by definition.
That malnutrition hypothesis is probably wrong, given my own personal experience, I developed schizophrenia after being relatively healthy, I took vitamins iron, vitamin b6 b12 calcium magnesium, vitamin E, D, and C. I ate oatmeal with 2 servings of whey protein, 2 bannanas, vegetables peas carrots and corn, black beans and egg whites, as well as fish, salmon and talapia.
Also I would run about 5 miles a day. I was healthy but got schizo anyway.
@AndrewLLFrazier The malnutrition hypothesis isn't about causing or not causing the disease. It's the difficulty of determining whether schizophrenia or the poor nutrition would cause the brain shape/nervous system's development. The autopsy alone cannot separate the physical signs of schizophrenia from the lifestyle caused by the disease, therefore, the information isn't very conclusive.
i have it
chuggyman1 1 day ago
I had a close loved one develop schizophrenia while living with me and this lecture helped me understand and heal.
meyerjac 6 days ago
Great prof. Come to Duke!
kalaharicamper 1 week ago
What about orthomoleculer psychiatry. Linus Pauling and evolution can mean more siceptable to outside toxins or higher needs for certain vitamins than other individuals.
funnime3 1 week ago
Maybe sequential thought is over-rated. And biased. What about natural cyclic processes? What about evolution?
funnime3 1 week ago
I think that aspbergers would be a plus to follow all this information. wow!
funnime3 1 week ago
Part 5 -Chew that over before you dismiss the non-existence of angels, demons, Jesus, God and satan.
Subsequently after that last visit to that doctor I have been medication free for about 4 years now. By the GRACE of GOD.
StephenDegenkolb 1 week ago
Part 4 - Further more after I explained this situation to a medical practioner who would have happily prescribed more medication to me I not only walked out of the examiners office without medication I left with an entry in my medical record that I am not a schizophrenic but a Christian.
Now you are presented with a misdiagnosis.
StephenDegenkolb 1 week ago
Part 3 - I was diagnosed about 5 years ago as schizophrenic because I hear voices and have visions.
About a year later after reading the Holy bible I discovered that many of the people in that book could be diagnosed as schizophrenic by the description of events in their lives. They heard voices and had visions.
StephenDegenkolb 1 week ago
Part 2 - , it is clearly possible that a lot of people are being misdiagnosed. Deny Jesus and you become satans slave, accept Jesus as master and you become satan's enemy.
I put it to you that schizophrenia whilst a real illness is defeatable through faith in Jesus Christ.
StephenDegenkolb 1 week ago
Part 1 -You touched briefly on some people who claim the voices they hear are, number one Jesus or, number 2 satan. What you failed to do was explain why that could not be the case. According to the Holy Bible Jesus is alive and well and all those people in church pray to Him. In the same respect Jesus states that satan is real and is evil. Since the two of them are real
StephenDegenkolb 1 week ago
@StephenDegenkolb amen!
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Last comment, violence is deff. no more of a risk in schizophrenia but there is variance. Early on I made many individual choices one was after reading about people with the diagnosis I committed to total non-violence. I think smart people with less empathy can also be capable of terrible violence. I generally find people with schizophrenia to be very empathetic and understanding. Most of the people I know understand me because we have a similar struggle and know unity combats delusions.hm
TheAmazingTubester 1 week ago
This is my theory: genes duplicate and the brain over-compensates, leading to genes tearing apart. I wonder if anyone wants to discuss theories. I'm really interested in genetics. My mom has paranoid schizophrenia and struggled with depression. She has no insight but had improved with medication very quickly, but goes from moments of being "normal" and moments of communication breakdown. I don't get it, but I hope someday we all understand it. Treatment returned me to normalcy, milder maybe.
TheAmazingTubester 1 week ago
I just wanted to understand how intelligence is related. I don't have maladaptive schizophrenia, I have adaptive schizophrenia it seems. I have high intelligence, don't get sick, and I can communicate well; studying mass communications in college. I go on tangents on essays sometimes, and I think abstractly even on medication. But I have adapted to the symptoms so well over time that I am 100 percent healthy. Is this extremely rare? My therapist said I have extreme insight and suggested law.
TheAmazingTubester 1 week ago
This lecture is informative esp. the part about immune system adaptations. I never get the flu, or a cavity, never broke a bone. I don't get sick and I went from paranoid to chizo-affective disorder. We are all unique of certain genetic differences such as Aspergers alongside Schizophrenia. I took the Sat at 13 and started out with about a 3.7 gpa. So throwing out theories of toxicity knowing I'm 100 percent healthy, and intelligence knowing I'm smart, gene copies and adaptation?
TheAmazingTubester 1 week ago
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TheAmazingTubester 1 week ago
The bottom line is you learn to live with what ever you go through in life.
210482fmj 2 weeks ago
schizophrenics are not usually violent unless there's drugs and alchol involved.
swiyyahnm 2 weeks ago
@swiyyahnm THats not entirely accurate
210482fmj 2 weeks ago
I believe in ghost. I saw one and I know people that have no mental illness and have seen ghost and spirits. I have a similar video on my page.
swiyyahnm 2 weeks ago
He scared the pants off of me! I shouldn't go to grad school just because I have schizophrenia??
rtdouglas77 2 weeks ago
Isn't it awesome that we can have access to such knowledge for free!
slimewowgroggavision 3 weeks ago 5
His beard and ponytail is distracting me.
minnysis3 3 weeks ago
ImPossible!
banq0o 3 weeks ago
Yay! Free education! No need to riot.
whyyesyes 3 weeks ago 2
I'm not being funny but this guy cannot get inside other people's minds and know whats going on in their heads just like anybody. ALso does this guy beleive in people who have psychic abilitis and are subject to spiritual turbulence.
210482fmj 3 weeks ago
@210482fmj I believe in psychics and a lot of what you go through when you have a break down is spirtual and from God.
swiyyahnm 2 weeks ago
@swiyyahnm i don't believe there is such thing as a breakdown or even such can be defined. Feeling different yes but that is normal. TO class sombody as feeling a little different as a breakdown is unfair. Nature obviously intended us to be this way. you can live with it
210482fmj 2 weeks ago
nooo, not on friday :(
SuperAlexLeigh 4 weeks ago
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Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.
jaco0bx 4 weeks ago
I wouldn't trade artistic talent for sanity, but Vincent Van Gogh was blessed. Also, Jesus did not reproduce, but he still made use of his life. His traits were maladaptive yet we are encouraged to adopt those traits, some of us take this seriously and become a nuisance. Great lecture. I appreciate you. And...
Syd Barrett, Bettie Page, John Nash, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Cobain, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Tim Burton, etc. ... (Some are now listed as bipolar ('schizophrenia lite')).
thefaketimerobot 1 month ago
If he shaved his beard he would look like that guy from Con-Air lol
MsArmani2010 1 month ago
Is there a place where I can get a good copy of this lecture? Better than 360p?
skarnak 1 month ago
@skarnak I am an idiot
Didn't see the download link.
skarnak 1 month ago
Very good. Very Informative.
skarnak 1 month ago
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MsLAB24 1 month ago
Interesting how many of us still use click languages for our pets and for babies, intuitively it seems.
evilyig 1 month ago
Wow, look at all the confirmation bias rampant in the comments here. You can find exceptions to his lecture, bravo, this must mean everything he says is intended to be absolute,.... but real life isn't rock, paper, scissors. He's discussing tendencies, averages, and theory. Not law.
evilyig 1 month ago
if you just want to watch the bit about schizophrenia skip to 23:09
FunnyCoolMonkey264 1 month ago 24
he tells like he knows the worl but seriously he knows nothing about it.. it's much deeper
MsLAB24 1 month ago
Most schizophrenics aren't homeless this guy stigmatizes so much it creeps me OUT! I'm so pissed off right now, I am schizophrenic I know!
MsLAB24 1 month ago
@MsLAB24 he didn't say most schizophrenics are homeless, he said most homeless are schizophrenic. It's important that you see the difference
EmilyR16161 1 month ago
@EmilyR16161 dont try to be smart i dont hear him talk realistic about schizophrenia. most people with schizophrenia live normal lives. excuse me.
MsLAB24 1 month ago
@MsLAB24 this guy seems so off. what timeperk does he live in. i don't like him at all.
MsLAB24 1 month ago
@MsLAB24 oh my gosh, please don't think I was trying to be smart with you. I really wasn't! I'm a psychology student and I'm planning on getting my doctorate because I want to help people with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. Trust me I understand that a lot of people with severe mental illnesses live relatively normal lives, but that doesn't disregard the things that are different with the brain and thought processes. Please don't think I was being mean :/
EmilyR16161 1 month ago
@EmilyR16161 i dont mean it that way but the guy is just quoting what he reads and future will point out new insights also the stigma he is feeding will dissapear, i am going to write a book about it.
MsLAB24 1 month ago
@MsLAB24 i also believe milder schizophrenia has an evolutionary goal.. like it or not, not everything in life has to be easy to be right sorry for my weird ideas bt 1+1 isnt always 2 in psychology
MsLAB24 1 month ago
He tells big time shit about language and the fact he says about schizophrenics not beable to think abstract and dwell into concreteness is vice versa!
MsLAB24 1 month ago
@MsLAB24
What lies has he told about languages? I have schizophrenic family and everything he has said describes them perfectly. God bless.
MainframeCobol 1 month ago
@MainframeCobol well most i know are lost into delusions and methaphorical stories. nothing concrete about that! maybe there's different in schizophrenia
MsLAB24 1 month ago
Interesting lecture. Also, is that a Beatles t-shirt I spy under that denim shirt?
0Paronomasia0 2 months ago 11
Who is the criminologist who found that mixing criminals faces makes attractive sketches?
fractalres 2 months ago
To combat my drug I take L-Tyrosine and 5 HTP sometimes I am not going to get Parkinson's when I'm old if I can help it.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
I don't trust the data about Twins of different placenta types.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
Quetiapine Sustained Release tablets I might Have come up with that Idea. I said to my Psychiatrist who was very paly with the Quetiapine that they should have a time release version of the drug much like a vitamin tablet I was using because I was suffering a massive burst of fatigue directly after taking drug but was more ok with it though the day. I came up with that idea in march 2004.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
I have never had much of a problem with abstract thought.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
The only time I have felt suicidal is under medication. under medication is the only time I have been emotionally flat also.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
It's interesting you mention that a where a schizophrenic should be hearing random noise they here quite constructed hallucinations because sleeping too random noise is what I used to get rid of my voices and to maintain the effect I have to do this every so often. In fact I developed my own form of random number generation based on a function making use of the last digit of random numbers generated represented in different bases.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
@QPWimblik I wish you the very best.
cadetstarnoodle 2 months ago
This guy must be looking at the schizophrenic mind as being fucking made of concrete.
Instead of dishing out the med's has this guy ever turned reasoning with the schizophrenic mind.
Child witicut (without prior knowledge) can cause these types of confusion. So if you were to explain to the Schizophrenic in detail where they are muddled and what the correct information is then there thinking can be improved.
QPWimblik 2 months ago
By the way it might surprise one and all to know that Freud NEVER EVEN SUGGESTED that schizophrenia could be treated by his methods. Freud was a neurologist and since the start of the 1700's and those early autopsies, it has been obvious at least to that group, that schz. was not an 'emotional' disturbance but a neurological one.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek emotions are neurological .... and the regulation of those emotions is a neurological process.
Evilrolfharris 1 month ago
In the following lecture that wasn't taped he explains how mild versions of schizophrenia and OCD underlie religion. The version from a previous semester is at watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
He also has a great lecture on depression at watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
axelboldt 2 months ago
@axelboldt I think that the idea that religion comes out of even mild mental disease, tends to discredit religion. My own personal idea is that human beings have a natural desire to have a belief in a higher power and that is hardwired into our brains. And while it's possible that some 'religious visions' were hallucinations of mentally ill people, I think it's more important what these visions meant to people, than exactly how they came about.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
Scientific AMerican has a nice article that is not too technical:
Identical Twins' Genes Are Not Identical
Twins may appear to be cut from the same cloth, but their genes reveal a different pattern By Anne Casselman | April 3, 2008
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek Yep, there is as much as 12% of a genetic difference between "identical" twins- making that label a complete misnomer. Also, the 40-50% likelihood of if one twin has it the other could also have it is a silly statistic when we know now that environment/illness/nutrition/physical activity/stress plays a role (60-70% influence) that accounts for more in development and outcome than genetics does (30-40% influence).
valsharai 2 months ago
@valsharai We don't know any such thing, people just assumed that for years because they did not understand a single thing about genetics. And if someone told them what the research was disproving that they would cover their ears and not listen. There are hundreds of different genes involved in schizophrenia and it simply does not inherit like blue eyes with 1 gene. It has a very different pattern- plus many of the genes involved are copy number variations, these are mutated, not inherited.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek You watch, when doctors and geneticists working together start realizing that there are people with the genetics for schizophrenia but ZERO symptoms or MILD at best - at that time, once again, your confidence in numbers will betray you. You will be FORCED to pay attention to environment against your own resistance.
valsharai 1 month ago
@valsharai The inheritability/genetic argument begins to crumble when you realise that emotional environments are also repeated down through generations via habit and conditioning.
Evilrolfharris 1 month ago
@Evilrolfharris Not talking about habit or conditioning. Not talking about heritability. Epigenetics! People are subject to different kinds of stress /inflammation, eat different foods, are given different medical treatments if /when sick, antibiotics being one of those types of treatments. The environment isn't some simple straight forward thing. Example: clone me 100 times, raise me in 100 different cultures- studying diet, activity, any antibiotic use- MANY different outcomes.
valsharai 1 month ago
@valsharai I wasn't disagreeing with you about environment, I was just putting it a different way and highlighting how emotional and physical environments also get passed down through generations, mimicking and blurring the path of the genetic argument.
Evilrolfharris 1 month ago
@valsharai You need to look at some of the more recent research on schiz. genetics. The only reason it was assumed 'activity' or 'environment' played any role in schz. was because people did not understand the genetics of it. Copy number variation researchers have pushed the genetic component of schz. up to 70%, and feel they will bring it to 100% within 5 years.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek - is there any books on this?
whiterabit09 2 months ago
@whiterabit09 I dont know of any one place where all the most recent research is summarized - it is just a matter of keeping up with the new research results. The main problem is that since it is not inherited by one gene, schizophrenia has an odd pattern of inheritance - SO people ASSUMED it must be 'part environmental' because they did not know the underlying genetics. Being 'environmental' appeals to people too - people don't like the idea (for various misguided reasons) that it is genetic.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
Identical twins can be said to be 'generally more similar than fraternal twins'.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
You are absolutely wrong about identical twins. There ARE two types - one identical, one semi identical but no matter what, none of them remain identical - copy number variations and mutations start the MOMENT the egg divides into two. Identical twins are not identical genetically at all. Once the egg divides, that is the end of the 'identicalness'. Read a little about genetics, you will understand what I'm talking about.
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
Beware of the Giant Lips that live in the oceans. I heard they especially like eating Disney cruise ships !!!
Fpockets 3 months ago
im gonna grow a beard also when im older
HarrySackthatsme 3 months ago
Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.
jaco0bx 3 months ago
@jaco0bx best wishes to you!
thomasfaltejsek 2 months ago
Excellent lecture. I learned a great deal.
Jan96106 3 months ago
Nicaraguan Sign Language !! WOW I'm so proud
carolinascastillo 3 months ago
N: Adherence to concrete thinking is characteristic of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenics have lower rates of violence, making me wonder what Lobaczewski cites in his Political Ponerology when he claims that sociopathy is three times more common than schizophrenia.
Brilliance is not part of the disease although it is of its diagnosees.
Q:Why aren't each symptoms classifed as a disorder and then their structures knocked down? Is it okay to call the first few layers of the visual cortex its afferents?
fractalres 3 months ago
@fractalres Untrue. Schizophrenia can happen to a person regardless of their IQ or intelligence level. The violence/schizophrenia connection is not exact. When schizophrenics are violent they tend to have very specific symptoms and characteristics, such as being off medication, but 'tend' does not mean all are similar. I will say, in having schizophrenics off medication in my home, I did learn to run fast..
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek 1. 'Schizophrenics' is a demographic
2. What aberrant conceptual structure is making them react violently to their environment?
fractalres 3 months ago
@fractalres I don't like to focus so much on violence because there are already so many misconceptions. But...I really don't think it is an 'aberrant conceptual structure'. Schizophrenia affects perception, emotions, it can cause impulsive behavior - meaning the person just suddenly gets an irrestable urge to act in some irrational way - perhaps a danger to himself, perhaps to others. Paranoia, lack of medication, substance abuse, can all be factors.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@fractalres It is not true that schizophrenics have lower rates of violence, but the increase in violence is very slight, and reflects that it is not universal with schizophrenics to be violent. Factors that increase violence chance - young age, substance abuse, paranoia.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek And...not taking medication.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
Just a few misconceptions in the lecture - suicide is all about a sudden flash of normal thinking, remission causes suicide, little evidence for glutamate/nmda theory, majority of homeless are schizophrenic (there IS high % of mental health problems in chronically, long term homeless, though), once over 30 one is virtually guaranteed not to get schz (not true for women who onset older, there is form of schz that occurs in older and much younger ppl)...I could list more, but running out of room.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek the dopamine theory accounts for positive symptoms, the glutamate theory accounts for negative symptoms. Problems with NMDA, GABA and such account for anxiety. Glutamate is also a problem in relation to the gene that manages glycine; it is the most common gene shared between schizophrenia and migraine sufferers -- glycine is necessary as a co-agonist to bind with glutamate at NMDA receptor sites. Demyelination and glutathione metabolism are also noteworthy.
valsharai 3 months ago
@valsharai Not exactly.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek "The Link Between Immune System Dysregulation and Schizophrenia" Stress, inflammation, and schizophrenia "Stress induces overactivation of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, which is caused by excessive cytokine-induced glutamate release from astrocytes. Increased inflammation in the CNS also leads to impaired function of oligodendrocytes, which are damaged as a consequence of overexposure to cytokines such as TNF-α; this leads to impaired myelination."
valsharai 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek If only I could lend you my non-medicated 30-year-old brain, you would know exactly how it feels, rather than merely reading and writing about it; though I do admit they have their value, the subjective experience would really open your mind.
valsharai 3 months ago
@valsharai I have watched for 40 years, thousands of people, what avoiding medication does to them, and seen them in nursing homes after years of no medication - the results are not good. Not good at all. It is a very bad choice - many schizophrenics though, will not listen and that is the tragedy.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek For the past decade, my treatment has been nutritional. Were you to meet me, you would never even know I had childhood onset schizophrenia and would likely say something outrageous to the effect that you don't believe I ever had the illness nor could I still, despite that I had auditory hallucinations between the ages of 8 and 22, have dealt with depression since the age of 7, withdrew from friends & family, was hypersensitive to stress, paranoid, anxious, etc
valsharai 2 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek It's my understanding from a distance that you hold some compassion. I commend you for wanting what is best, and I challenge you to ask yourself if you truly know what is best. I challenge you to ask the question, "Are we really helping these people, this way?" Meanwhile, the consumer movement is picking up speed and we are learning how to recover and to thrive- not just get by on medication for the rest of our life. We are human beings, not psych patients.
valsharai 2 months ago
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Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.
jaco0bx 3 months ago
What is a schizophrenic?
I've heard of people with schizophrenia, but what is a schizophrenic?
macnpepperjack 3 months ago
@macnpepperjack schizophrenic means someone who has schizophrenia. "He is schizophrenic"
NewberYou2ber 3 months ago
@NewberYou2ber Maybe my sarcasm is lost on you.
"Schizophrenic" is an insult to people with the disease. Just like "Nigger" is an insult to African Americans.
macnpepperjack 3 months ago
@macnpepperjack lol, that's stupid. Schizophrenic is a proper term, it is nothing like nigger, which is deragatory slang. Do you have paranoid schizophrenia?
NewberYou2ber 3 months ago
@macnpepperjack ..well im not insulted by that...so you must be wrong..
HOMEnHIGH 3 months ago
it's a hard disease to live with, it saps one of a normal life, forever.
ydaltarf 3 months ago
I could listen to man talk for hours, my favorite Professor.
totheman 4 months ago 3
what a great lecture. I wish my proffessor had the knowledge and teaching ability this guy has.
Bendvlblue 4 months ago 9
Schizophrenia lecture starts at 23:40
juicymeister123 4 months ago 32
@juicymeister123 thank u ! saved me wasted time (:
CTOMIA 4 months ago
colorless green ideas sleep furiously
aurash91 4 months ago
Here's the one about religion
watch?v=LNSe4Ff57n4&feature=related
gerandomiseerd 4 months ago
!!Watch this and Terence McKenna while you are stoned... :-)
MushroomedAnymore 4 months ago
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sburns353 5 months ago
Why oh why couldn't we see the next lecture!!!!?
tattvamasi 5 months ago
why am i listening to this when i have a physics test tommorow?
KoolioJosh 5 months ago 25
I am schizophrenic, so what is going on is excess dopamine, and misaligned cells, large ventricles causing cortical compression.
JoshAlfred27 5 months ago
@JoshAlfred27 You are supposed to not think abstractevely :D lol
greenwoodonearth 4 months ago
@JoshAlfred27 enlarged ventricles do not cause any compression - the ventricles simply enlarge because there is more space for them to expand into. There is no compression created.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
he's a good teacher !!
bori23c 5 months ago
Thats the guy from Zeitgeist:Moving Forward
AndyDufresne987 5 months ago
Thank goodness for Stanford University for posting this! And that's coming from an Arizona State student!
Gravija1980 5 months ago
I studied psychology at degree level in england for 3 years, i've learnt more in one hour and 40minutes than I did during my whole degree......
Jamiebnorwich 5 months ago in playlist More videos from StanfordUniversity 10
There is a lot of ablest biases in this talk. I love Sapolsky but he is talking bigottedly in this talk.
openwayhome 6 months ago
@openwayhome not extremely. Some of his statements are a little outdated, overly simplistic or are 'clinical myths', but compared to the usual garbage you hear on the internet about schizophrenia it really isn't bad at all.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
LOL 7:21 =)))
ScaredCrows 6 months ago
watch?v=ZEglHjd_gUQ
yottzumm 6 months ago
its so confusing, he has this "flight of ideas" disorder...jumping from one topic to another...wasted my time ,
MrGh0xt 6 months ago
If forced to comment I'd point out he didn't mention some people are more afflicted with the illness then others and he seems to focus on the worst cases, also I'm surprised he mentioned nothing about studies on schizophrenics who have never had medications have a higher recovery rate then those that do medicate - I hope that's an over sight and not a funding issue :P
But hearing self castration was common place is surprising as I wasn't aware of that
IronicallyVague 6 months ago
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IronicallyVague 6 months ago
@IronicallyVague in 40 yrs of dealing with schizophrenics, I've never met even one schizophrenic who did that.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek - That may very well be true but keep in mind everything you know was written by people who know nothing at all.
No offense but you're only an expert at doing it wrong
IronicallyVague 3 months ago
@IronicallyVague And you are an expert at not getting the treatment you need, and not only that but insisting everyone else not get treatment. I have seen the results, many times over. Many funerals.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
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IronicallyVague 6 months ago
Damn, he is such a good speaker. I can't remember hearing anyone talking so fluid, clear, captivating just like that.
tokotokotoko3 7 months ago
my girlfriend was diagonised with this last summer!She was hospitalized for 5months.For the last 6months, she has made a big improvement.Unfortunately now, she is slowly falling back.Life sucks!!!
engineer14 7 months ago
@engineer14 hey buddy, try getting this book 'natural healing for schizophrenia' by eva edelman . my brother was diagnosed as well and we are trying to evade the medications and do it naturally.search for orthomolecular psychiatry...
pkrishnametal 6 months ago
@pkrishnametal thanks.Good luck to you and to your bro!
engineer14 6 months ago
@pkrishnametal And you will destroy him. It is irresponsible. As for orthomolecular - they toss him some random vitamin pills proven 90 years ago to have no effect on schizophrenia, and old cheap medicines most doctors have abandoned decades ago - what a farce.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@engineer14 try to stay loyal to her through the ups and downs. It takes time to learn to manage this illness and to find the right medications and doses. Too, while learning to manage the disease some backward steps are not unusual. Look for positive books about how to communicate and understand your girlfriend and you both will be happier.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
crap. i wish i could go 2 stanford just because of R.Sapolsky i find it very interesting
oxide112 7 months ago 2
I call bullshit on the goat story. Plus I'll point out that not all schizophrenics present this way. I am not very concrete at all. My loose associations manifest as more symbolic thinking. Like making mythology out of every sentence.
claudius1713 7 months ago
@claudius1713
i'm diagnosed schizophrenic also. this is the exact burden on the psychiatrist this guy is talking about.
in japan they call it social integration disorder. if you're a christian talking to god and you go to church and talk to your priest about it, it's acceptable... especially if these dialogues seem to be adding to your productivity in your social relationships etc
this tribe had ideas where killing goats fit. the schizophrenic there went for a dramatically different approach
noeticaldesign 7 months ago
@claudius1713 The goat story is possible(what proof do you want? Him to hold up a goat skin with teeth marks?). Cognitive problems make it very tough at times to follow cultural norms, and it can be hard to pick up on social cues. Impulses can be strong - I came home one day to find my furniture painted bright pink, another friend's dryer was disassembled by his friend with schz. Things like that can happen, you have to relax and develop a sense of humor and acceptance.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
I would really want to know what "slightly affected relatives" of people with schizophrenia have a value for Society. Sapolsky says he's going to discuss this "on friday", but i couldnt find any lectures for May 28 10 (which would be that fri.). Can anyone help me on that one? Besides that: a great lecture.. but what im not quite comfortable with is, that he claims schiz. as beeing a totally biological desease caused by dop.-disreg. Why is he totally disregarding the Chick-Egg-Dill. with that?
Gehinterkopf 7 months ago 2
So if you Schizophrenic, generally a good thing to do is study language, common phrases and the metaphorical meaning of slang and colloquialisms. Study emotions people have and relate those to particular words. This way you can understand the abstract phrases and paraphrases people express without getting confused. Catalog the structure of social interaction and social ques. Study satyr and sarcasm and associations. I can hold conversations with strangers feeling rather plastic, but it works.
EMPIRE1419 8 months ago
is this what it's like in university?...i'm fucked
DEIMOSLOL 8 months ago
@DEIMOSLOL You just need to study more, simple. Work harder, don't give up
EMPIRE1419 8 months ago
@EMPIRE1419 Standford is a Ivy League college so the courses are HARD. I would study my butt off though if i was in Standford, I'd finally have something worth living for.
MsAgnosticatheist 7 months ago
What is the name of the person driving around in the Winnebago with the MRI studying the metabolism of the frontal cortex in criminals?
Has he published any of his results?
syberraith 8 months ago
most bad lecture i ever participated!!!
just got a lecture about schizophrenia some weeks ago at my own university in germany... it was very interesting. reason why i tuned into this crap today and wasted about half an hour listening to this chauvinistic douchebag!
daschamaeleon 8 months ago
@daschamaeleon What the fuck?
Please elaborate. Don't just rage without saying what you're raging about.
majestic93 8 months ago
and it seemed to me, that he fully appreciates this "filter of distinction", pushing forward the thesis, that schizophrenic people are kinda damned in their loss of function to be usefull in any way for the society.
but as a biologist he shouldn't denie the power of the psyche to reorganize a vulnerable organism by setting in the right context.
however our concept of "self" needs to integrate schizophenic phenomena insteat of seperate them from the apparently "healthy"!
btw sry for the raging...
daschamaeleon 8 months ago
@majestic93 well, i didnt finish the attention, because it seemed to me, that the lecture was not scentificely elaborated enough.
the prof. universalised a lot about the pathogen aspects of the illness and therefore proofed theoretical knowledge only. he mentions how massively schizophrenic people are singled out, by giving examples of how unnormal they are regognized by the cognitive valid.
daschamaeleon 8 months ago
@daschamaeleon Why don't you watch the entire thing?
majestic93 8 months ago
@daschamaeleon It certainly doesn't help that you only listened to the first third. Just to contextualise your hasty comments, how many books and scientific articles have you published ? How many decades of clinical experience do you have ?
To be honest, I had difficulties when attempting to understand your points of view here... wasted about two minutes listening to your ignorant, blowhard douchebaggery.
blakerwalk 8 months ago in playlist Course | Human Behavioral Biology
@blakerwalk so here is my epistemic caveat: philosophy of mind as well as psychology honors the schizophren by mentioning their 'seisomographic' abilities to reflect the generell public by its surroundings. in the end, our vulnerablility for 'chauvinism' might be the only instrument to develop a fair sensorium in recognise the ill right. the biological mechanisms of schizophrenia shoundn't be the foundation of judgement for you prime students! just trying to 'elaborate' correlations!
daschamaeleon 8 months ago
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xknowledgeisfreex 8 months ago
Excellent lecture. Very broad and informative.
xknowledgeisfreex 8 months ago
I think I'm gonna have to go with an experienced professor from a very prestigious University of the world, than that laundry list garbage that they put on the internet...I dont believe that schizophrenia or other mental disorders have anything to do with genetics, because it's not solidly proven..I believe it has much to do with a person's environment, stress, and social support
marter2006 8 months ago
@marter2006 Schizophrenia has a strong genetic component. These conclusions have been reached from statistical analysis, and are not obtained on a whim or "guessed:" if your identical twin has schizophrenia, you have a 50% chance of succumbing to it yourself. This means schizophrenia is caused by both hereditary and environmental factors in a 50/50 split. It indeed has "much to do with a person's environment, stress" etc. like you mentioned.
jd6735 8 months ago
@jd6735 That is an unwarranted conclusion that has been proven wrong. The genetic component is more complex and besides that, there are identical twins, non indentical(fraternal) and semi-identical, plus identical twins are not identical genetically in the first place.
thomasfaltejsek 3 months ago
@thomasfaltejsek "identical twins are not identical genetically in the first place." Your statements are without basis. Identical twins develop from the same zygote and are genetically identical by definition.
jd6735 2 months ago
Thank you StanfordUniversity !
elasetti 8 months ago
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That malnutrition hypothesis is probably wrong, given my own personal experience, I developed schizophrenia after being relatively healthy, I took vitamins iron, vitamin b6 b12 calcium magnesium, vitamin E, D, and C. I ate oatmeal with 2 servings of whey protein, 2 bannanas, vegetables peas carrots and corn, black beans and egg whites, as well as fish, salmon and talapia.
Also I would run about 5 miles a day. I was healthy but got schizo anyway.
AndrewLLFrazier 9 months ago
@AndrewLLFrazier The malnutrition hypothesis isn't about causing or not causing the disease. It's the difficulty of determining whether schizophrenia or the poor nutrition would cause the brain shape/nervous system's development. The autopsy alone cannot separate the physical signs of schizophrenia from the lifestyle caused by the disease, therefore, the information isn't very conclusive.
pkozoner 8 months ago