Posted by alexandra_k on November 25, 2005, at 19:20:45
In reply to TD in untreated schizophrenics, posted by med_empowered on November 25, 2005, at 17:36:04
i will check the book (i have it - so i'll find the bit and quote it later today or tomorrow).
I'm not sure about whether to believe him or not, but I'm fairly sure he will have referenced that thought so we can have a little look at his sources.
A bit about Frith...
He is a psychologist, not a psychiatrist.
The book is (as I was saying...)
"The Cognitive Neuro-Psychology of Schizophrenia"
What that means... He does consider the abnormalities in structure / neurotransmission that have been found upon autopsy.
He does consider how much the abnormality may be due to medication vs the degenerative nature of the illness.
He does acknowledge that the brain abnormalities are a matter of 'tendancies' across population samples rather than being a litmus test for whether individuals have been appropriately diagnosed or not.
He does acknowledge that the brain abnormalities tend to be a matter of 'degree' rather than a huge difference in kind.
He is most interested to develop cognitive models of positive and negative symptoms.
Cognitive models of what cognitive-neurological factors might be responsible for delusions of alien control, thought withdrawal, passivity phenomena, negative symptoms, speech / communication problems etc.He doesn't have a drug line to push either way...
(In fact you would expect him to be sceptical being a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist)I'll chase those up...
Thanks for the interest...
:-)
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