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In medical jargon, wouldn't those be "signs"? I thought "symptoms" specifically refer to the qualia of the disease as experienced by the patient (e.g. pain, "fe
by derefr 4y ago
In medical jargon, wouldn't those be "signs"? I thought "symptoms" specifically refer to the qualia of the disease as experienced by the patient (e.g. pain, "feeling of ____", etc.)
- ccooffee 4y agoPerhaps, but in that case there are no symptoms of schizophrenia in mice, correct? I suppose we might be able to deduce "feeling of ___" via behavior monitoring (e.g. hunger) or possibly even brain imaging (e.g. seeing "fear centers light up"), but even then it isn't "as experienced by the patient".
- profstasiak 4y agothe model exhibits behaviour that we can deduce a schizophrenic mouse would have. Like social withdrawal. Are we sure they have schizophrenia? I am not so sure, and not that qualified to tell if that makes sense
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoTechnically yes, although in practice the overlap between symptoms and signs is pretty significamt and so the distinction is pretty blurry.