Category Archives: schizophrenia

Neurodiversity: More than Just a Good Notion

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Thomas Armstrong

Two recent articles highlight the positive dimensions of mental health conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. In the journal Nature, an article by Canadian neuroscientist Laurent Mottron, emphasizes the advantages of autism (Mottron, 2011). Mottron suggests that, in … Continue reading →

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Professor Demonstrates the Inner World of Schizophrenia through Second Life

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Thomas Armstrong

The Economist had an article in its September 28, 2006 issue that featured a California psychiatry professor who used the Internet to demonstrate the inner experience of schizophrenia: "Peter Yellowlees, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, … Continue reading →

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What Causes Schizophrenia? The American Journal of Psychiatry Provides an Answer

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Thomas Armstrong

I just read an interesting editorial in the current issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry on schizophrenia.  In particular this paragraph intrigued me: "What causes schizophrenia? The short answer may be "nothing" or more precisely "no one thing." In … Continue reading →

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People With Schizophrenia Fare Better in Developing Cultures

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Thomas Armstrong

International studies conducted by the World Health Organization over the past three decades, have concluded that people with schizophrenia fare better over time in developing countries compared with industrialized nations.  In the current issue of The New York Times Magazine, writer … Continue reading →

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Who Are You Calling Crazy? Book Review [The Nation Online]

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Thomas Armstrong

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell.  "Americans have an interesting history of conflating our political disagreements with diagnosis of mental illness. In a terrific new book, psychiatrist and historian Jonathan Metzl tells one of these fascinating stories. Metzl's book, The Protest Psychosis: How … Continue reading →

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