medication doesnt rewire brain.medication are more like tranquilizers they calm you down.they dont fix the problem
can i at least get some sources? Because we discuss meds here daily and I sae this thread for a first time. Its confusing. Like i know you adapt after you lose one hand, but you cant regrow it. The same i think is with SZ. So are you saying we are going back to lobotomy just to stop one part of the brain producing too much dopamine?
They balance neurotransmitters in your brain.
I had a student who got his corpus collosum cut as part of an epilepsy surgery. By all rights, given what we knew of the human brain at the time, he should never have been able to cross his midline again. But after like 6 months, he could. His brain rewired itself and learned new ways to process left-right movement without his corpus collosum.
But is schizophrenia brain damage or a bad brain from genetics? Neuroplasticity only helps brain damage and not if the brain is genetically bad.
https://www.nature.com/articles/427311a#article-info
Here is a link to a study I did a report on. Patients with Alzheimerâs were taught to juggle for 6 months. At the end, their MRIs showed actual signs of brain cell growth.
We donât know that.
Look guys, I an NOT saying that medication-free solutions currently exist to treat schizophrenia. What I AM saying is that taking advantage of neuroplasticity might relieve symptoms for some people.
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Phineas Gage lost most part of his brain and still able to function and lived for many years.
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So what we are supposed to do with this âneuro plastyâ. Just get up tomorrow and say im not SZ, and those 4 meds i take are for sick people and just stop taking them?
You can develop good habits and promote rewiring. For example you can remain busy and manually focus away from depressing thoughts. When you follow this pattern for some days depressing thoughts become less and less interesting to pay attention to.
On the other hand if remain idle and pay attention to depressing thoughts it become more and more interesting to pay attention to.
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Ok I thought you said neuroplasticity fixes schizophrenia and no need for meds. I guess we need meds for life unless they find a genetic cure or deep brain stimulation maybe.
I did that twice, it was hell nearly ended up in prison and dead, regretted it.
His personality got destroyed. He became aggressive, bad social behavior, risky behavior etc His personality got damaged because personality and social behavior are in the frontal cortex. Neuroplasticity doesnât help much in severe brain damage.
We studied him in neuroscience:
"Gage didnât die. But the tamping iron destroyed much of his brainâs left frontal lobe, and Gageâs once even-tempered personality changed dramatically.
âHe is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity, which was not previously his custom,â wrote John Martyn Harlow, the physician who treated Gage after the accident.
This sudden personality transformation is why Gage shows up in so many medical textbooks, says Malcolm Macmillan, an honorary professor at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and the author of An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage. "
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You canât just reverse schizophrenia without meds.
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He at least able to function rather then die at the spot or become paralyzed, coma etc.
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I know that, but significant damage was done, his personality is gone.
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Certain things we canât change but still there is room for some changes if we try.
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These depend on the location of the injury. Personality and social behavior is in the frontal lobes, he lost those and his personality. He wasnât normal anymore.
If his injury was to the back of his head he would be dead on the spot. Like hockey players who get in a coma or die from injury to the back of the head
Yes as its functions canât be replaced.
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