Its not the medications that hurt your brain - its unfortunately the stress and process of psychosis. There are things you can do to help your brain function well again. Exercise helps.
Here is the research:
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…
Another study showing that its the schizoprhenia thats causing the gray matter loss ([not medications as some anti-psychiatry people promote )]1 :
Another good reason to get treatment as quickly as possible, and stay on medications to reduce relapse risk.
Summary:
Steeper gray matter loss seems to be unique to those individuals with higher levels of sub-psychotic pre-delusional symptoms that acutely worsen in the ramp-up to full-blown psychosis, and as such may reflect pathophysiological processes driving emergence of psychosis
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