The Delusions about Schizophrenia and Psychosis: a 2009 lecture by Ridha Joober-Part 1

Ridha Joober, MD, PhD, Researcher and Director of the Schizophrenia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research at the Douglas Institute, gives an update on schizophrenia during the 2009 Mini-Psych School. He talks about :
Genetic factors
Environmental factors
Who is at risk
Neurochemistry of the brain
The new neuroleptics
Clinical case

Part 1 of 2. Watch Part 2 at:
http://www.douglas.qc.ca/videos/142?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=media%2...

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• ridha joober
• psychosis
• schizophrenia
• mental illness

[fileboy2002]

@bloomingdedalus I think the thing to keep in mind is that schizophrenia has a very specific sets of symptoms, symptoms that do not vary accross cultures. Sapolsky's lecture about schizophrenia includes a particularly vivid example of this.

[PanLamda]

Excellent lecture

[jeffym76]

thank you!!although i appreciate your lectures... i have trouble in the fact that we view thier reality as maladdaptive in nature since that is relative

[Mmmousemaid]

Great lecturer - just a note: schizophenia is Gk.

[chemoelectric]

@bloomingdedalus

There is no other way to deal with this problem. I speak as a generally educated person, not as an expert in medicine; it is not a matter requiring expertise. We know for a fact that a person's objective reality is a construct of the human or animal brain. In the case of humans, the individual's objective reality is not fully separable from culture.

Being out of touch with "underlying reality" is an affliction of scientists, not applicable to the general public. :)

[bloomingdedalus]

I am appreciative to hear this man talk about Schizophrenia being a range of disorders that have been lumped into one disorder - I am disturbed to hear him characterize it as a "failure of the brain to construct an adaptive reality." Under such a definition - certain people - such as Giordano Bruno - could be wrongfully characterized as "Schizophrenic" - when in the truth - they are in contact with reality - but out of contact with culture.