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This long Globe and Mail article informs us that, in Canada, the U.S. and many other countries, black people suffer more schizophrenia than others. The reasons for this are not well understood but, if you're a good person, you're hoping that it can all be blamed on white racism.
So racism alters peoples' perceptions and makes them paranoid and suspicious? Or could it be that paranoid, suspicious people with altered perception see more racists than actually exist?
* "racialized citizen" is Canada-speak for "a non-white person"
No. Schizophrenia is the autism & Alzheimer's of young adulthood. It's caused by an atypical immune response that damages the brain's immune cells, called Microglia. If Microglia are atypically activated in early childhood development it can result in Autism. During childhood, it can result in Schizophrenia & in ageing, it results in Alzheimers. Different stages of brain development (age of the person) at the time of the atypical immune response, determines what symptoms (behaviors) are seen.
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The brain’s immune cells are hyperactive in people who are at risk of developing schizophrenia, as well as during the earliest stages of the disease, according to a new study by researchers at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre in London.
This confirms earlier findings that microglial activation is elevated in the brains of patients with schizophrenia, and provides what the researchers believe is the very first evidence of elevated microglial activity in people who are at risk of developing schizophrenia, and of an association between greater microglial activation and greater severity of symptoms. While it’s possible that excessive microglial activation is merely a protective response, the results strongly suggest that inflammatory processes are involved in the disease, and may even contribute to its development.
“My hunch is that this is what’s going on, and that microglial activation is part of the disease pathology, as opposed to a protective response,” says senior author Oliver Howes. “We know that people with schizophrenia have loss of synapses, and that microglia play a role in synaptic pruning. If pruning goes to excess, or goes wrong, it could lead to major problems in brain function, and that may be what we’re seeing here.”
Immune response is controlled by genetics & black people are immunogenomically predisposed to certain atypical immune system provocations. It's already known that some vaccines evoke a more atypical immune response in blacks, than they do in people of European descent.
Last August, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention senior scientist, Dr. William Thompson, invoked federal whistleblower status and confessed that the CDC has known since 2001 that Black boys exposed to the MMR vaccine have a disproportionate risk of autism.
Schizophrenia rates in black people is likely the result of immunogenomic adverse reactions to vaccination. It's not the result of their experiences with racism ... Except that their predisposition for adverse neurological effects from vaccines has been well known for some time & the public health authorities seem to be okay with that. It's a slow, silent form of genocide.
This long Globe and Mail article informs us that, in Canada, the U.S. and many other countries, black people suffer more schizophrenia than others. The reasons for this are not well understood but, if you're a good person, you're hoping that it can all be blamed on white racism.
So racism alters peoples' perceptions and makes them paranoid and suspicious? Or could it be that paranoid, suspicious people with altered perception see more racists than actually exist?
* "racialized citizen" is Canada-speak for "a non-white person"
And here’s a Rutgers study that concluded black people are more likely to be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenic.
Conservatives typically shrug off most mental illness as a "spiritual" problem though, that can be cured with prayer and religion. This is especially true for schizophrenia, which most conservative Christians believe is actually demonic possession. Is that approach any better?
It's why most health insurance in this country doesn't cover mental healthcare.
All ACA compliant plans must cover inpatient/ outpatient mental health treatment.
This long Globe and Mail article informs us that, in Canada, the U.S. and many other countries, black people suffer more schizophrenia than others. The reasons for this are not well understood but, if you're a good person, you're hoping that it can all be blamed on white racism.
You mean not well understood by ignoramuses.
Schizophrenia is genetic, meaning it's in your DNA (or not.)
If someone is schizophrenic, then so were one or more of their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents etc all the way.
There's considerable forensic evidence that X-Moses was schizophrenic, and if not, then suffered schizo-affective disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
I guess next they'll claim Tay-Sachs (which affects only persons of Jewish descent) is caused by racism.
Aside from that, it musta been a slow news-day for the Globe and Mail.
While that is true, more often than not specific triggers bring the disease to the forefront and symptoms begin to appear.
That's where the racism might come in - as a trigger.
In an era where even mathematics can be construed as "racist."
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