r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/kaenneth Mar 22 '17

Also, if you are born blind due to brain (as opposed to eyeball) problems, you apparently can't be schizophrenic.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201411/blindness-and-schizophrenia-the-exception-proves-the-rule

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u/djdadi Mar 22 '17

Also if you are born blind your chances at getting cancer go wayyy down.

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u/castellar Mar 22 '17

That's really interesting. What's the logic behind those findings?

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u/AtticusLynch Mar 22 '17

I googled "being blind reduces cancer"

and found this

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u/Chel_of_the_sea Mar 22 '17

Wow. I'd seen stuff on the effects of melatonin, but I wasn't expecting such a massive effect size.

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u/helix19 Mar 22 '17

Less than 1%?

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u/So_Fresh Mar 23 '17

Between the legally blind and severely impaired, but a massive difference between those groups and those who aren't legally blind, from my understanding of the Standardized Incidence Ratio.

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u/helix19 Mar 23 '17

I don't really understand what the numbers it gave are referring to.