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These clearly state in the abstract that there is gray matter loss in differing stages of schizophrenia, however it is unclear if it is as a result of common me
by Kittensmittens3 1y ago
These clearly state in the abstract that there is gray matter loss in differing stages of schizophrenia, however it is unclear if it is as a result of common medications or the disease itself. It doesn't indicate that you can scan a person without any other knowledge and diagnose them with the disease. Gray matter loss can happen for other reasons as well.
- genewitch 1y agoi wonder if that has anything to do with putting someone with paranoid delusions into a loud machine that you explicitly state is going to scan their brain? maybe that's why there's no good imaging studies prior to drug intervention? further i am having a hard time coming up with medical conditions that have a single test pass/fail like this.
- KittenInABox 1y ago> further i am having a hard time coming up with medical conditions that have a single test pass/fail like this. Famously, pregnancy...
- Kittensmittens3 1y agoMaybe, but I don't think most psychiatric patients are in a constant psychotic state that they would take such a strong stand on this. Maybe a few Ken Kesey characters depicted in a cartoonish manner. But as the article mentions it's not a single pass/fail test they seek but any biological marker at all.