I should have said this earlier, but the reasons I asked those questions is if schizophrenia is an interplay of brain damage, genetics, and environment, then I believe that if we can prevent even one factor (I don’t think it would matter which factor) we can prevent schizophrenia.
P.S. I realize that it’s much easier to ask questions than answer questions.
Yes, I think that’s entirely plausible. Although people seem to get sz with only one factor or with out a known factor. But reducing the number of factors people have would probably lead to a reduction in the cases of sz on a population wide basis.
You’ve got a point there twinkle stars. I’m already in AA and there are some emotional infants in there.
I believe I may have stunted my emotional development as well. But you need something to fill the void. Maybe a hobby or something.
I would never underestimate technology, whoever designed the universe has a lot of tricks up their sleeve.
That said I think there will be better treatments but the human body is so complex I have no idea how long it will take before the scientists start making serious progress in figuring it out.
I don’t think they’ve cured a single mental illness, let’s see which one comes first lol. The small companies like iti and minerva have 1 shot at developing a solution and if it fails no luck cuz they don’t have funding to keep developing strategies. It’s the govt. and nimh that will have to make the next mental health leap because they have continuous funds.
Unfortunately the govt. prioritizes funding to the most widespread diseases, like aids etc. and since sz only affects 1% it is not a priority same can be said of spinal cord damage. But in the long run the more they keep chipping away and seeing what doesn’t work the more likely they are to eventually work their way to find something that does.
time…cure…would we use it if we had it. maybe it already here . or maybe its all in the breading screening. that’s needed.
HIV affects fewer people in the US than Sz does. I don’t know how public funding priorities are decided on. But part of it with HIV is it is contagious, if it was ignored, it could become a much larger problem.
I agree that funding has got to come from the government.
I suspect the first cures for mental illness will be those with relatively simpler (though still complex) mechanisms, like OCD or PTSD.
I just came across a drug that reverse ageing being possibly available in just 3 years. If they can reverse ageing then could this undo the damage of getting sz. It seems the future is very bright indeed,
It is estimated that a London-Singapore-Melbourne flight has roughly the radiation equivalent to a chest X-ray.
Wow, I didn’t know that plane traveling exposes us to cosmic radiation !!
How is it that this drug is going to begin testing in humans in six months and yet it will be available by 2020 when it takes 15 years or more for a new psychiatric med to come to the market.
Also who is going to get prescribed this drug and for what circumstances. Life is a terminal illness at what point do we decide to intervene? 20-40-65?
What about teenagers who don’t want toget any older do they get to take it too?
The timeline doesn’t make sense I agree, but don’t some drugs get fast tracked?
When it comes to choosing to intervene, surely that would be a personal choice? I’m 44 and along with my greying and receding hairline, I have noticed some back pain. I think I would regress to being in my prime again, wouldn’t you?
Teenagers would surely, want to grow up to their adult prime, or else how would they get served at the bar? 
Yea but good luck getting your doctor to prescribe it to you for a receding hairline. I think it’s an ethical issue, for example should us psychotics have access to this drug because of the antipsychotic meds taking years off our lives and vitality? Or do you have to be a certain age to qualify for it? One way or another the insurance companies will have to approve it and I would like to know what basis they would approve it for.
Fast tracking drugs just means that they meet more with the regulatory authorities during the trials. It only speeds up the process a little. Not from 15 to 5 years though.
Yes, ethically us sz have more of a claim as the drugs knock ten years off lifespan on average (except suicides), so we would have priority.
There were some reports about the diabetes drug metformin prolonging lifespan for those that were expected to die by 10 years too. That too should be prioritsed for sz who like me have type 2 diabetes induced by the medication.
Perhaps, this drug is metformin related so possibly doesn’t have to go through the hoops to provide efficacy.
I don’t think it was metformin related from what I saw in the artcle.
I take metformin now for weight loss. 1 pill 2x a day.
So far I don’t think it’s done much for weight but you have to eat healthy with it too.
As for prolonging my life, I’ve been told that I don’t have a wrinkle on my face, but that could be due to having no stress in my life whatsoever ha!
You’d better watch out for those laughter lines…
Haha I don’t think I have to worry about that. If I laugh once a year it’s a lot.
I do find it a bit suspect that they didn’t give the name of the drug.
the bbc don’t mention the name either: