Posted by yxibow on February 25, 2008, at 15:54:19
In reply to Re: Dopamine receptor antagonists » yxibow, posted by Jamal Spelling on February 25, 2008, at 14:45:06
> > Basically from what I can discern this is a rat study that shows that the dopamine blockade in APs reduces confusion and decision making, at least in an animal model.
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> By "reduces ... decision making", do you mean it reduces indecisiveness and procrastination?What I am deducing from reading the article is yes, indecisiveness and confusion and other things. Schizophreniform disorders have negative and positive symptoms, as well as cognitive symptoms (not related to the dictionary terms of those words exactly).
"People diagnosed with schizophrenia usually experience a combination of positive (i.e. hallucinations, delusions, racing thoughts), negative (i.e. apathy, lack of emotion, poor or nonexistant social functioning), and cognitive (disorganized thoughts, difficulty concentrating and/or following instructions, difficulty completing tasks, memory problems)."
[http://www.schizophrenia.com/diag.php]
There are a lot more detailed descriptions but what I think was being tested here was cognitive and possibly negative symptoms.I'm not the expert on schizophrenia, though, but from what I do know, almost entirely all the people who are schizophreniform are not violent like the media portrays. Its really shameful.
And then there's a certain belief system(s) which I wont post here for sake of arguments, PBCs, and the like, that shuns medication, which has caused tragedies with the few people who do have positive symptoms.-- Jay
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