Early Symptom Severity Predicts Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Reduction

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Thats old (10 year old) data and was only “associated with” … The new research indicates otherwise:

Brain Gray matter loss and inflamation associated with Development of Psychosis / Schizophrenia - Not Due to Medications

There is a lot of attention paid to the gray matter loss in the brain of people who have schizophrenia - by the antipsychiatry groups that blame medications on this brain change. A new study by Yale University and refutes that belief - it occurs even in those people not on medications: “Thirty-five individuals ultimately converted to psychosis and they showed a steeper rate of thinning in prefrontal cortex compared with those who did not convert and the healthy control group. Importantly, this tissue loss was not explained by exposure to antipsychotic drugs.” “Because this differential rate of tissue loss was observed among subjects who had never been exposed to psychiatric drugs, we c…