Does anybody understand this?

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http://schizophrenia.com/?p=692

this article says that gray matter loss in the brain is due to psychosis, the neuroinflammation, NOT due to antipsychotics.
this is because they showed that people who were undergoing psychosis had huge neuroinflammatory markers in their brain, highly predictive of gray matter loss, during a time that they were NOT on an antipsychotic…interesting.

HOWEVER, it also states that experiments on monkeys have shown gray matter loss in monkeys who have been given antipsychotics, compared to controls

so to me, the article seems to be not very logical. because yes psychosis seemed to cause gray matter loss, BUT so did the antipsychotics in monkeys. so it seems like antipsychotics can INDEED ALSO cause gray matter loss, unlike the title of this article suggests.

very confusing. just mentioning this because I was wondering out of curiosity what causes more gray matter loss, antipsychotic or psychosis.

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I heard the info on brain damage was reviewed and they didn’t agree with the study.

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can you elaborate I don’t understand what you mean?

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It was in this. Its pretty informative if you want to learn about the long term use of antipsychotics.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16091016

Basically people that have reviewed evidence saying that aps cause brain damage have some problems with it.

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Could they use some smaller print in that article.lol

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ahaha,good point

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this article looks interesting thx, i will have a read when I can focus better :slight_smile:

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