Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White Noise, Catechol-O-Methyl Transferase, Prodrome
2 Nov 2015
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Hs 2700 david suzuki"s the downside of high. Psychosis is a frightened state filled with anxiety and hallucinations, symptom of schizophrenia. First thing to suggest a connection was brain scan, excess dopamine. Sane: people believed the person was different before they took it. 80-85% of people with psychosis were using cannabis. Weed doubled in canada and usa in 1990s, 15 years, but finally new wave of studies came up and supported. Causes psychotic states, if they smoke before they"re 16, the chances for developing schizophrenia triple. Smoked weed a lot, had delusions, in and out of hospitals for 3 years to control illness. Manic, thought people were going to eat her, in a time zone that didn"t exist bipolar disorder. Started smoking when he was 15, psyche shifts from one place to another place, grades were dropping, he would get illusions and believe them, thought there was an exorcist, writing the messages on paper.
