https://www.nature.com/articles/s41537-024-00460-6   Any thoughts on this? Abstract Schizophrenia (SCZ), as a neurodevelopmental disorder and devastating disease, affects approximately 1% of the world population. Although numerous studies have attempted to elucidate the causes of SCZ occurrence, it is not clearly understood. Recently, the emerging roles of the gut microbiota in a range of brain disorders, including SCZ, have attracted much attention. While the molecular mechanism of gut microbiota in regulating the pathogenesis of SCZ is still lacking. Here, we first confirmed the differ ..read more

Hello all, Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.  Everything I'm going to discuss here got started in what can only be described as a bit of a dumpster fire thread, which I feel led to an interesting discussion about autism and psychiatry, in the responses... which were thankfully absent the OP. To be clear, the OP seemed to believe that autism is a blood born condition that can be cured with bloodletting and hemodialysis. The OP was essentially a snakeoil salesman.  So rather than really engage with this person, there was a pretty fruitful and calm discussion amongs ..read more

There are some poisons called organochlorines. Some are quite known, they have some history, like DDT. What they do is mainly to keep the sodium channels of the cells constantly open. And what would this do? Well, it's all a matter of dosis. And we are talking human beings here. Because these poisons are not "pesticides", but biological weapons. That's what they have been used for, still after their "ban". What this would produce would be a state of neurotoxicity, specifically by hyper-stimulation of the cell, causing a set of symptoms that could be named in mafia-style as "autism". Has been h ..read more

Hello! Read the image below and tell me if I am a freak for it. It tells something about me that people knew about by sneakily getting information from me. They then thought I am a freak for it. I don't know why people hate me for it.   These 11 different long plaid skirts and these 11 females wearing them are all very attractive to me especially for the fact that all of the females are wearing the same long sleeve buttoned white blouse shirt. I like it when these 11 different long plaid skirts are lined up this way. It's because I then imagine all of these images as a sisterhood of 11 fi ..read more

Have any studies been done on individuals with very high ontelligence? How exactly are the brains of guys like Terence Tao or Ed Witten different from an average brain that makes them so smart? Is it about brain size? Size of some brain areas? Some unusual synaptic properties? Whatever?    ..read more

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I've been thinking about this and it's been haunting me for a while. I learned about BIID only a slight bit ago, and now I've been thinking about the correlation with RLS, Restless Legs Syndrome. I haven't done any studies, but I'm quite interested in perhaps doing one. I've always had symptoms similar to BIID, particularly in my right leg. I also have RLS, especially in my right leg as well. I wonder if perhaps they could be connected in some way, maybe it could be a similar mutation in the brain? I'm very intrigued about this, because it would open up some more information on both disorders ..read more

When I studied Psychology, I learned that there is very little difference between men and women psychologically. The differences that psychologists do see often disappear when controls are put in place. However, at the same time there are people who identify as the opposite gender (or no gender at all). Doesn't that imply that there are psychological differences between the male and females? What am I missing here? Perhaps I am misremembering what I learned - could it be that there are no differences intellectually between males and females but that there are other differences? The other thing ..read more

Hey everyone! ? New parent diving into the world of <a href="https://advantagetherapy.com.au/language-and-speech-therapy/">speech therapy for kids</a> here. Any quick suggestions on the best resources? Websites, books, or support groups—I'm all ears (pun intended)! Thanks a bunch ..read more

There is a level of non-verbal communication that is well known, and many books have been written about human body-language. How important is interactive body language? How much deeper of a human connection exists for a person who often engages in deep enough conversations that the body takes part in it with its own language?   ..read more