Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Cannabinoid
17 Oct 2017
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Man smoked pot and had higher levels of dopamine. Psychosis intense anxiety and intense hallucinations. More cannabis the people took when they were 18, the more likely they were to get diagnosis. 6 times more likely to get a disgnosis if you took canabis. Swedish was the first that spread attention. In the 19990"s use doubles in can. Cannabis nearly double the use of psychosis states. If they start smoking before the age of 16, they don"t just double, could quadruple. Frequent user ended up in hospital with schizophrenia diagnoses. Got so high she became manic (thought people are going to eat her, military, time zone) Believed illusions exorcist demon, tv voices. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, spent a year in hospital. Their doctors believed their illness was triggered my cannabis. Dopamine makes us more aware and increase in this can trigger schizophrenia. Attributed too much meaning to mundane and neutral all of a sudden can become significant.
