Time article on Teenage Brains

[Chemar]

The May 10th issue of Time magazine has a fascinating article on teenage brains, which also discusses some rather revolutionary stuff re Tourettes etc.

 

a discussion thread has started on this at BrainTalk

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showth...ead.php?t=15253

[Guest Guest_efgh]

Chemar

 

thanks for posting this. all this sounds too "technical" for me.. what is schizophrenia basically? Is there any link between TS and Schizophrenia? Is there more probability for a person with TS to develop schizophrenia?

 

thanks.

[Chemar]

Hi efgh

 

TS and schizophrenia are two very different conditions!!!

 

 

Schizophrenia is a chronic and often debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and to retreat into a world of delusions or separate reality.

 

Schizophrenia is a kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of reality is abnormal.

 

Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder—the most chronic and disabling of the severe mental illnesses. People with schizophrenia often suffer terrifying symptoms such as hearing internal voices not heard by others, or believing that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These symptoms may leave them fearful and withdrawn.

 

The first signs of schizophrenia typically emerge in young people in their teens or twenties; in rare cases, schizophrenia can appear in childhood. Symptoms including hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, unusual speech or behavior, and social withdrawal impair the ability to interact with others.

 

TS is NOT a "mental illness" per se...it is a neurological disorder and, unless there are comorbid conditions or other specific psychological issues, most people with TS live VERY NORMAL lives except for the fact that they tic.