• Due to excessive bot signups along with nefarious actors we are limiting forum registration. Keep checking back for the register link to appear. Please do not send emails or have someone post to the forum asking for a signup link. Until the current climate changes we do not see a change of this policy. To join the forum you must have a compelling reason. Letting us know what skills/knowledge you will bring to the community along with the intent of your stay here will help in getting you approved.

psychosis

  1. haidut

    High PTH, low vitamin D implicated in bipolar disorder (BD)

    A great study highlighting once again the importance of calcium, vitamin D and especially the pro-inflammatory parathyroid hormone (PTH) for mental health. While there are many studies (both observational and intervention ones) examining the role of vitamin D in mental health, this is one of the...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • bipolar cholecalciferol depression parathyroid psychosis pth vitamin d vitamin d3
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  2. haidut

    Vitamin B6, lowering stress, may treat schizophrenia

    Both human and animal studies. The human study was with pyridoxamine - a vitamin B6 isomer declared by FDA to be a "prescription drug" and as such banned for OTC sale in USA while still being widely available in most other countries. That FDA ruling is pointless due to the fact that pyridoxamine...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • clonidine noradrenaline psychosis pyridoxal pyridoxamine schizophrenia serotonin stress vitamin b6
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  3. haidut

    Serotonin may cause schizophrenia, Parkinson, and Alzheimer diseases

    One by one, medical myths (slowly) go the way of the Dodo. Two of the most pervasive such myths are that psychotic conditions like schizophrenia are caused by excess dopamine, and Parkinson Disease (PD) is caused by a deficiency of dopamine. Unbeknownst even to most doctors, studies exist...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • 5-ht alzheimer hallucinations ondansetron parkinson psychosis schizophrenia serotonin
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  4. haidut

    Chronic Stress (adversity) Lowers Dopamine And Causes Mental Illness

    The evidence for the role of chronic stress in virtually every health condition doctors have a name for just keeps on accumulating. Unfortunately, even in this latest study the scientists keep insisting that there is some mysterious and unquantifiable difference between chronic stress...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • adversity anxiety cause chronic stress cortisol depression disease dopamine mental disorder mental illness pathology psychosis ptsd schizophrenia serotonin suicide
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  5. haidut

    A Selective Serotonin Antagonist Is A Potent Antidepressant

    Fraud, fraud and nothing but fraud! After more then half a century of claiming that serotonin cures depression, now mainstream medicine is quietly trying to retreat from this fiasco by introducing more and more potent (and selective) serotonin antagonists as treatment of depression and silently...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • cause depression fraud mental illness psychiatry psychosis schizophrenia serotonin
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  6. haidut

    Elevated Serotonin Increases Criminal Activity

    The study looked at correlations between ambient temperature and criminal activity and found that higher temperatures correlate with reduced SERT density and as such elevated serotonin. The SERT protein is the one that deactivates serotonin and it is a sodium dependent protein. Serotonin...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • cause crime criminal activity criminal behavior drive promote psychosis serotonin sert violence
    • Replies: 58
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  7. haidut

    Serotonin Causes Bipolar Disorder (through Mitochondrial Dysfunction)

    Yet another nail in the coffin of the "happiness hormone", which may end up being one of the biggest scientific frauds of the 20th century, rivaling the one about estrogen being the "female" hormone. It has been known for a long time that both lithium and methylene blue, both of which are...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • 5-ht bipolar disorder mental illness metabolism mitochondria mitochondrial dysfunction psychosis serotonin
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  8. haidut

    Marijuana May Cause Psychosis/schizophrenia By Increasing Serotonin Signalling

    I know the topic of weed is controversial but by now the link between heavy and chronic marijuana use and the risk of psychotic conditions like schizophrenia has been well established. Peat mentioned a few times briefly that cannabis has anti-androgenic effects and should not be used chronically...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • 5-ht2a cannabis expression increase marijuana psychosis risk schizophrenia serotonin thc weed
    • Replies: 57
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  9. haidut

    Schizophrenia Treatment Could Be As Simple As Reducing Ammonia

    I posted a number of studies on Ceylon cinnamon and its metabolite sodium benzoate, showing their benefit in Parkinson disease, depression and anxiety. While all of those studies were on animal models, the toxicity of ammonia in the brain is undisputed and its role in all of these disease has...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • ammonia ceylon cinnamon nitric oxide psychosis schizophrenia serine sodium benzoate treatment-resistant
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  10. haidut

    Intrusive / Unwanted Thoughts Due To Low GABA Signalling

    Peat has mentioned GABA quite a few times in his articles and its role as the chief inhibitory signal in the body, protecting both brain cells and peripheral tissues/organs from excitotoxicity caused by PUFA, glutamate, estrogen, stress, etc. But the role of GABA is especially prominent in the...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • anxiety depression gaba intrusive thoughts psychosis ptsd schizophrenia unwanted thoughts
    • Replies: 47
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  11. haidut

    High Lactate May Be The Cause Of Major Psychiatric Disorders

    The study itself has a misleading title because there are quite a few situations that can result in lower brain pH (and thus high acidity). High levels of CO2 can also cause low brain pH levels, but as I posted in a few other studies drugs that raise CO2 levels can actually treat mental disease...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • bipolar disorder cause depression disorder elevated high lactate lactic acid manic mental mood psychosis schizophrenia
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  12. haidut

    SSRI Drugs Linked To At Least 28 Murders, Including Mass Shootings In USA

    I posted a number of threads on the dangerous "side" effects of the SSRI class of drugs. The reason I put "side" in quotes is that considering their pro-serotonergic profile these are not really side effects but expected results along the main known mechanism of action of those drugs. Serotonin...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • homicide mass shooting murder psychosis serotonin ssri suicide uk usa
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  13. haidut

    Taurine May Treat Depression And Psychosis In Humans

    A human study, and as such very relevant. The dose (4g daily for 12 weeks) was a bit on the high end but that was probably because the scientists designing the trial were unaware of the studies showing benefits of taurine plateau after 2g daily. In any event, good news for those with mood/mental...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • cognition depression psychosis schizophrenia study taurine
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  14. haidut

    Methylene Blue As A Treatment For Manic Depressive Psychosis

    The study was on bipolar disorder psychosis, which is different from the psychosis in conditions like schizophrenia. The psychosis of bipolar disorder is believed to be caused by cortisol, and since methylene blue helped then it suggests methylene blue can lower excessive cortisol. This is not...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • bipolar disorder depression disorder manic methylene blue psychosis study
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  15. haidut

    Schizophrenia / Psychosis Linked To Traumatic Experience And Stress

    I have suspected this for a long time, but the official version to this day is that schizophrenia is primarily a gene-driven disease linked to a "misbehaving" cluster of about 300 genes. The fact that most of these genes are related to serotonin metabolism is considered, of course, irrelevant to...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • epigenetics life experience psychosis schizophrenia serotonin stress trauma
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  16. haidut

    Anti-serotonin, Pro-dopamine Drug Approved For Psychosis And Bipolar Disease

    After more than 5 decades of claiming that psychosis conditions like schizophrenia are caused by excessive dopaminergic activity and depression is a deficiency of serotonin, big pharma is doing 180 degrees reversal. A new drug was just approved for treating bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • agonist antagonist bipolar disorder disease dopamine psychosis schizophrenia serotonin
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  17. haidut

    Dmso Is Similar To Reserpine, Lowers Serotonin, Increases MAO-A

    I have suspected that DMSO has central effects given how powerfully sedating it can be for some people. This older study compares the effects of DMSO to the ancient tranquilizer reserpine, which Peat has written about before. This would make DMSO an effective serotonin lowering agent, an...
    • haidut
    • Thread
    • depression dmso mao-a methylene blue psychosis reserpine serotonin
    • Replies: 45
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
Top