LOL I’m not focused on this at all. I think I’ve spent a whopping four days of my life thinking hard about schizophrenia—one day in 2021 that didn’t go anywhere, one day last summer where I read a bunch of papers and thought of this hypothesis and felt pretty good about it and then moved on to other things, then one more day like a week later to research and write the blindness + schizophrenia post, and yesterday to write this post. Schizophrenia not a significant personal or professional interest of mine. I am very impressed with myself for fooling you. Or maybe you’re just being polite. :)
(Understanding schizophrenia is plausibly indirectly helpful for my professional interests, for various reasons. Also, I have a rule-of-thumb that if I can write a decent blog post in four hours, I should just do it, often it leads to unexpected good things!)
Yeah the “things to explain” could have been more accurately titled “aspects of schizophrenia that I can easily think of right now, from either off the top of my head or skimming the wikipedia article”. :-P
I think the cognitive deficits are very straightforwardly and naturally predicted by my hypothesis.
I wrote something about nicotine but a different commenter said that what I wrote was flagrantly wrong. (I put a warning in the OP.) Guess I need to think about that more. Honestly, I don’t have a great understanding of what nicotine does to the brain in the first place. Something something acetylcholine :-P
I haven’t looked into antipsychotics / neuroleptics, and agree that doing so would be an obvious next step, and indeed maybe I should have done it before posting this. Sorry. I’ll put it on my to-do list.
Interesting, thanks. All makes sense and no need to apologize. I just like it when people write/think about schizophrenia and want to encourage it, even as a side project. IMO, it’s a very important thing for our society to think about.
LOL I’m not focused on this at all. I think I’ve spent a whopping four days of my life thinking hard about schizophrenia—one day in 2021 that didn’t go anywhere, one day last summer where I read a bunch of papers and thought of this hypothesis and felt pretty good about it and then moved on to other things, then one more day like a week later to research and write the blindness + schizophrenia post, and yesterday to write this post. Schizophrenia not a significant personal or professional interest of mine. I am very impressed with myself for fooling you. Or maybe you’re just being polite. :)
(Understanding schizophrenia is plausibly indirectly helpful for my professional interests, for various reasons. Also, I have a rule-of-thumb that if I can write a decent blog post in four hours, I should just do it, often it leads to unexpected good things!)
Yeah the “things to explain” could have been more accurately titled “aspects of schizophrenia that I can easily think of right now, from either off the top of my head or skimming the wikipedia article”. :-P
I think the cognitive deficits are very straightforwardly and naturally predicted by my hypothesis.
I wrote something about nicotine but a different commenter said that what I wrote was flagrantly wrong. (I put a warning in the OP.) Guess I need to think about that more. Honestly, I don’t have a great understanding of what nicotine does to the brain in the first place. Something something acetylcholine :-P
I haven’t looked into antipsychotics / neuroleptics, and agree that doing so would be an obvious next step, and indeed maybe I should have done it before posting this. Sorry. I’ll put it on my to-do list.
Interesting, thanks. All makes sense and no need to apologize. I just like it when people write/think about schizophrenia and want to encourage it, even as a side project. IMO, it’s a very important thing for our society to think about.