Schizophrenia and blindness

[Crayola227]

People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia

The possible explanations could help us better understand the condition.

www.vice.com

Maybe it isn't news amongst psychiatrists. A search on SDN for "schizophrenia blindness" didn't pop anything up, so I assume this topic hasn't come up recently. I thought it might be interesting fodder for discussion. I can't speak to the scientific accuracy/merit/literature on the topic but the read was intriguing.

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[dl2dp2]

Did you read the paper? 66 people had cortical blindness. The sample is not large enough to give you a real answer. The spin on this is unreal.

 

[WisNeuro]

Frontiers | Cognitive and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms by Which Congenital or Early Blindness May Confer a Protective Effect Against Schizophrenia

Several authors have noted that there are no reported cases of people with schizophrenia who were born blind or who developed blindness shortly after birth, ...

www.frontiersin.org

Frontiers | Cognitive and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms by Which Congenital or Early Blindness May Confer a Protective Effect Against Schizophrenia

Several authors have noted that there are no reported cases of people with schizophrenia who were born blind or who developed blindness shortly after birth, ...

www.frontiersin.org

Frontiers | Base rates, blindness, and schizophrenia

www.frontiersin.org

Congenital blindness is protective for schizophrenia and other psychotic illness. A whole-population study.

Congenital/early blindness is reportedly protective against schizophrenia. Using a whole-population cohort of 467,945 children born in Western Austral…

www.sciencedirect.com

Small numbers are not predictive: Congenital blindness may or may not be protective for schizophrenia - PubMed

Small numbers are not predictive: Congenital blindness may or may not be protective for schizophrenia

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Some further readings on both sides, and some discussions about drawing conclusions from small samples in which you examine a MH diagnosis that is prevalent in a relatively small portion of the general population and examine it in a relatively small population (congenital/cortical blindness).

 

[birchswing]

When they do DBS in people with schizophrenia (which I believe is rare), what part of the brain do they target? Congenital blindness would relate the occipital lobe, correct? I wonder if in a different time this would be enough to go ablating parts of the brain in people with schizophrenia to see what happens.

 

[watto]

Puts an entirely new spin on the metaphor in "Bird Box."

 

[Crayola227]

Did you read the paper? 66 people had cortical blindness. The sample is not large enough to give you a real answer. The spin on this is unreal.

Did you read the paper? They were talking about congenital blindness, not just specifically cortical. Not saying your point is invalid, just no reason to single me out in a rude way when I merely brought it forth as a topic for discussion and said as much, and to boot you got that detail wrong. Irony.

 

[WisNeuro]

When they do DBS in people with schizophrenia (which I believe is rare), what part of the brain do they target? Congenital blindness would relate the occipital lobe, correct? I wonder if in a different time this would be enough to go ablating parts of the brain in people with schizophrenia to see what happens.

Haven't seen it in clinical practice yet, but i believe at least one of the clinical trials was targeting the ventral tegmental area. Other looking at areas of the ACC and nucleus accumbens.