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I couldn't help but think of a drug user's eagerness to attach deeper meaning to seemingly unimportant events while under the effects of heightened dopamine lev
by peterquest 15y ago
I couldn't help but think of a drug user's eagerness to attach deeper meaning to seemingly unimportant events while under the effects of heightened dopamine levels.
- klipt 15y agoAnd drug use is thought to trigger schizophrenia in certain people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Substance_abuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Substance_abuse
- daeken 15y agoOnly by a small portion of the psychiatric community. The vast majority believe that the causation runs the opposite direction, that it's self-medication. This has been discussed for years for just about every serious mental illness, in fact. There's no real consensus either way, but most mental health professionals I know agree with this. (I grew up in a house of mental health professionals, so I've had no dearth of opinions on the matter, to say the least.)
- peterquest 15y agoYet another problem that can be reduced to the chicken V egg dilemma.
- jwdunne 15y agoI think this ties in closely with the dopamine hypothesis of Schizophrenia and Amphetamine being the chemical model for said disease.