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Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the just-a-little-less-crazy-loose-in-the-world dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "According to the US National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, affecting millions of people. Previously schizophrenia and depression were assumed to be two separate conditions, but the new research shows for the first time that both have a common genetic basis that leads people to develop one or the other of the two illnesses."

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  1. Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    i'd like to thank Steve Ballmer for making himself available for this important breakthrough.

  2. This is a very interesting finding by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    No it isn't, you moron. These people are lying. They're all lying.

    1. Re:This is a very interesting finding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      BadAnalogyGuy forgot to take his lithium today.

    2. Re:This is a very interesting finding by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shut up. Shut up! SHUT UP!

    3. Re:This is a very interesting finding by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 3, Funny

      We are very happy that a solution has been found. REALLY HAPPY!!!!!!!!!! JOY AND BUTTERFLIES OH THE WORLD IS WONDERFUL ...

      oh what the heck, there is no point, I might as well just give up.

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    4. Re:This is a very interesting finding by sy5t3m · · Score: 2, Funny

      I communicate with the voices in your head!

    5. Re:This is a very interesting finding by Zencyde · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tom?

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      What day is it? Could you please tell me?
  3. I used to be schizophrenic by jayme0227 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But we're all better now.

    I know, I know, that's dissociative identity disorder, but you still laughed. Maybe.

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    But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
    1. Re:I used to be schizophrenic by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

      I know, I know, that's dissociative identity disorder, but you still laughed.

      Roses are red,
      Violets are blue,
      I'm schizophrenic,
      And so am I.

    2. Re:I used to be schizophrenic by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was until I shot myself in the head after destroying the nations credit system.

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  4. It's Not a "Disease" by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's an Orientation.

    Get with the program.

  5. Warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    BadAnalogyGuy (945258) is a scientologist.
    If he contacts you about a free personality test, firmly refuse him.

    1. Re:Warning by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're glib. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.

    2. Re:Warning by RichardJenkins · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're glib.

      You mean he provides the core object system used in GNOME?

  6. Downside by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

    This could be very bad for the tin foil hat industry.

    1. Re:Downside by damien_kane · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you are truly paranoid though, you extract your own tin and make it into foil then fold the foil into hats. Its the only way to be sure.

      No, the only way to be sure is to nuke the site from orbit. Yours is a distant second, though.

  7. Need to slow down when reading the article titles by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Achievement unlocked: Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression!"

  8. Re:I find this highly dubious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bet they tested it on superintelligent rats.

    Am I pondering what I'm pondering? I think so, self, but next time, I wear the tutu.

  9. Re:I find this highly dubious... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Statistical correlation. You know, like the link between tooth-brushing and intravenous drug abuse.

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  10. Re:Nice to see the worst elements of /. are here by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was your angry rant? Man, you need some practice~

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  11. Re:Clarification by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, that would be elation.

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  12. Re:Nice to see the worst elements of /. are here by xednieht · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since one of the symptoms is "purposeless agitation" it would seem that /. is a schizo-magnet.
    Not me of course since the voices told me I wasn't.

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  13. Re:Nice to see the worst elements of /. are here by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 4, Funny

    He would probably give an angrier rant if not for the meds.

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    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  14. Awesome but... by XPeter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot won't be helped until the secrets of Aspergers Syndrome are "Unlocked"

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  15. Re:Manic Depression is awesome by ae1294 · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is actually the way most people feel all the time?

    and he should really care how "normal" people fell why????

    fuck normal... give me bat shit crazy and totally happy any day....

  16. Re:Manic Depression is awesome by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    heh heh heh, don't get all depressed over it. Life's too short... :P

    .

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  17. Re:I find this highly dubious... by Gilmoure · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don' thing t'hose words mean whad you ting dey mean.

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    I drank what? -- Socrates