Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study Finds

Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by atleastoptimal on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:49PM (#35822570)

So Schizophrenia is the opposite of Autism?

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Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by perchard on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:00PM (#35823731)

there is a theory along these lines. something like: the defense against the unconscious is so strong in autism that the person becomes rigid and shut off. the defense against the unconscious is so weak in schizophrenia that the person is overwhelmed with phenomena. but both have something to do with intense unconscious objects.

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Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by apple34 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:17PM (#35823853)

Do you have a source for these claims? Would be super interested in reading more on this.

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Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by DiscourseFan on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:29PM (#35833322)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080676/

I found this (relatively) recently published article reviewing Bleuler's Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias which is the book where he first publishes the terms "Schizophrenia" and "Autism." Though Bleuler was using the words with his colleagues starting a few years earlier. (Cf. Freud-Jung Correspondences, May 1907[0], you can ctrl-f "autism,""schizophrenia," etc.)

[0]https://archive.org/stream/FreudJungLetters/The-Freud-Jung-l...

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Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by skissane on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:39PM (#35824001)

Some studies find that "schizophrenia runs in lower average IQ families, autism runs in higher average IQ families", from which some suggest that the schizophrenia-vs-autism distinction is grounded in the IQ distinction – see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927579/ – but I think that kind of research is very speculative and needs to be taken with a large grain of salt

Other researchers suggest the boundary between autism and schizophrenia is weaker than is commonly supposed. Common diagnostic tests for ASD perform poorly in distinguishing it from schizophrenia; there is heightened prevalence of each condition among those diagnosed with the other; autism started out as a new name for childhood-onset schizophrenia (in fact the word "autistic" was originally coined to describe schizophrenia), and there is still a lot of dispute about what is the difference between autism and childhood-onset schizophrenia (the former is much more common than the later–subclinical hallucinations are common in children, but clinically significant psychotic symptoms are quite rare)

Nobody really knows, not even the experts.

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Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by coffeebeqn on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:51PM (#35824059)

Just gotta find the perfect balance between the two

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Re:Heavy Marijuana Use Increases Schizophrenia in Men, Study... by druidish on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:41AM (#35825972)

Some scientists suggest that schizophrenia is the human equivalent of domestication syndrome. Autism is also seen as a type of anti/counter domestication syndrome.

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