http://www.futurity.org/retina-schizophrenia-999892/
Once again showing that Psych is becoming more and more integrated with other fields...
Once again showing that Psych is becoming more and more integrated with other fields...
I didn't know about the eyes being implicated in schizophrenia till today and it sounds like this is taking it a step further, isn't it? Also, abnormal movements which is what the saccades are, is something that I have known about for years. You are right on the money about how far we are from actually being able to use these bits and pieces of information.A problem with this is that with any field of medicine an awesome advance can occur (and the stuff in the article is awesome) but unless it can be exploited on a clinical level there is almost no point on the battlefield.
E.g. Charles Nemeroff alleges to have discovered the gene for PTSD. He speculated that perhaps the military could do gene testing on people to see if some people without the gene may be a better fit for going into battle or if a woman was raped and in the ER a gene test could be part of the rape-kit workup.
But unless someone actually mass produces such a gene test it has almost no clinical use. You can tell a PTSD pt about the gene all you want it likely won't do anything to make them better.
It's been known for years that the eyes are involved with schizophrenia. The saccades for example are abnormal in schizophrenic patients but no one developed a way this could be exploited on the field.
I'm not trying to downplay the important of articles like this because it' stuff like this that does eventually lead to something real and it is cool stuff. Just throwing a little bit of cynical reality to it.
I didn't know about the eyes being implicated in schizophrenia till today and it sounds like this is taking it a step further, isn't it?