Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.
I read in an eeg-textbook, years ago, that the reference-voltage for normal EEG’s was 50-microvolts, but in a schizophrenic’s psychotic-fugue/episode, it can be required to be 250-microvolts.
It may simply be that with much of the brain understimulated, the threshold-for-paralyzed-in-dysfunction isn’t ever crossed.
Sorta like those drag-racing cars, whose engines explode if run for 1-single-second more than the race they’re built-for…
Stay below the energization-threshold ( blind-since-birth ) & then no problem.
Energize everything, & then the over-energized-to-being-broken threshold gets crossed.
It may have nothing to do with the visual-cortex itself, iow… only with overall-brain-energization, that’s creating this difference…
Also, a researcher named Thompson ( whose papers have been disappeared from the internet, now ) did a periodic-brain-scans-of-children study, where he showed that child-onset-schiphrenia involves the loss of 20% of the upper-forebrain, in a particular region, & the scans mapped where brain was being lost, in different areas…
The 10%-total-brain-reduction that has been known-about since the 1920’s isn’t even loss it is specific-areas which get corroded-down.
Having an already-full-cup, then reducing-the-size-of-the-cup, may be why it’s a problem, & having a not-full-cup, with brain-capacity that’s being underused, may allow adapting to it without dysfunction.
correlation is not causation
No one claimed it is
No but to me it implies the occipital lobe, specifically the visual cortex, is somehow related to the development of schizophrenia.
I read in an eeg-textbook, years ago, that the reference-voltage for normal EEG’s was 50-microvolts, but in a schizophrenic’s psychotic-fugue/episode, it can be required to be 250-microvolts.
It may simply be that with much of the brain understimulated, the threshold-for-paralyzed-in-dysfunction isn’t ever crossed.
Sorta like those drag-racing cars, whose engines explode if run for 1-single-second more than the race they’re built-for…
Stay below the energization-threshold ( blind-since-birth ) & then no problem.
Energize everything, & then the over-energized-to-being-broken threshold gets crossed.
It may have nothing to do with the visual-cortex itself, iow… only with overall-brain-energization, that’s creating this difference…
Also, a researcher named Thompson ( whose papers have been disappeared from the internet, now ) did a periodic-brain-scans-of-children study, where he showed that child-onset-schiphrenia involves the loss of 20% of the upper-forebrain, in a particular region, & the scans mapped where brain was being lost, in different areas…
The 10%-total-brain-reduction that has been known-about since the 1920’s isn’t even loss it is specific-areas which get corroded-down.
Having an already-full-cup, then reducing-the-size-of-the-cup, may be why it’s a problem, & having a not-full-cup, with brain-capacity that’s being underused, may allow adapting to it without dysfunction.
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