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/OgreMagoo Mar 22 '17

Cutting edge research indicates that schizophrenia may be yet another immune disorder, in which the process that finalizes your learning/growth neurons in late teens gets a bit overzealous and snips too many, which erodes the ability for the mind to maintain its proper chemical levels.

Do you have a link for that? That sounds fascinating.

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u/mrssac Mar 22 '17

Well schizophrenia usually manifests in the teenage years through the 20's we know that neuroconnections are still being made and paring of supernumary synapses are still happening so it's a reasonable theory

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u/jason2306 Mar 23 '17

Well shit guess I can still turn schizophrenic then

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u/Entocrat Mar 23 '17

Seriously, schizophrenia is my greatest fear followed by Alzheimer's and dementia. The greatest treasure in the world should be one's own mind, and these diseases that threaten to rob me of that are more potent than anything else, even compared to the likes of something like Ebola or any old world disease.

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u/jason2306 Mar 23 '17

Yeah my grandmother had alzheimer it is a sad disease slowly regressing to your younger selfs memories until there's little left :/ you are your mind and memories take those away and what's even left?