Ooookay? You're one of those people who like to demand "proof" in exhausting detail in any internet discussion, aren't you. Try plugging "schizophrenia hereditary" into any search engine, such as Google. Here are the first three results:
Some of those links include actual cites from scientific studies, by the way. I'm not going to bother locating physical copies of those journals and don't have a pubmed subscription, but you're welcome to look them up if you'd like.
Do you actually know anything about psychiatry, or are you just going by this particular article about a study that you think is iffy? Because it's not news that schizophrenia is at least partially hereditary, they've known that for decades. The same is true of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. The only debate is to what degree they are caused by hereditary versus environment. You can compare it to how diabetes runs in families, but in general can be triggered or not depending on your lifestyle. But some people will develop the disease even if they treat their body like a temple.
This study has made the news because they're claiming to have identified the specific genes involved, not because there wasn't already general agreement that there were genes involved in predisposing someone to get schizophrenia.
Like bipolar disorder, it's been known to be at least partially hereditary for decades. I don't think this particular study is going to bring out the pitchforks and torches.
Interestingly, apparently some of the drivers have trained for unfamiliar tracks using... GT4, I think? And Speed had an amusing segment a few years ago where they filmed a driver (Nico Rosburg?) do a virtual run all the way around the track with his eyes closed, with an accompanying feed showing that it would be very nearly a perfect run on the real thing.
I was in group therapy with a man who had been fired from a high powered executive job that he had made his whole life, and his wife had asked for a divorce immediately after, and he had become deeply depressed. Despite the councilor's best efforts, so pointlessly angry that he refused to do anything like applying for a job that he felt was below the level of his previous job. As of his last day of the two month program, he was within a day of being thrown out of his condo. He was a perfectly nice guy, and I felt bad for him, so I gave real thought to inviting him home to stay with us for a couple of weeks. But in the end I let him walk out (after wishing him well, of course, and telling him to call if he had an emergency). I had been in therapy with him three days a week for a month, and KNEW that as long as he was living on my couch, he would do absolutely nothing to fix his situation, and in the end I'd need to kick him out into the same exact situation. I very much hope that he got it together once he experienced living in his car in NJ in February, but there was nothing I would be able to do to actually help him in any real way.
I had at least one professor who insisted that we stop taking notes during crucial parts of the lectures, in order to make sure we absorbed the concept instead of just writing down a summary of it.
Just for clarity's sake (plus now I'm more awake), I am capable of the more touchy-feely kinds of management; I've had junior people working for me before (all in the same office as me, thankfully) that were happier or less stressed if I stopped by first thing in the morning to see if they needed anything. It's just not my strong point, so I default to treating people how I would like to be treated unless given a clear indication that they need a different approach. But in those cases I would still usually check my email first in case they had already sent me a specific question.
I get what you're saying. Though I will caveat that it depends on personalities as well - my manager chatting me first thing in the morning everyday for no particular reason would drive me INSANE with annoyance. Or at least make me paranoid that they're checking up on me for an unknown reason.
And if you ask me how something is going that I already sent you an email about.... *grrr*. Please tell me that this is only social - that you're at least looking at your email before asking for a status update!
... I'm not sure where you got from what I said that I was constantly checking my email?
Yes, it's the first thing that I do each morning, because that's where the emergencies will be. But I do have actual work to get done, plus IM and a phone if anybody needs anything during the day. I probably check for new email every couple of hours.
As I said above, my team is in four states and three time zones. They're expecting me to read their email about the critical issue holding them up; and then respond by email or IM, or phone if it's a really complicated question or response.
Virtual teams have changed how management works.
Also - and this may be because I manage software development, not IT - there are plenty of fires that need to be handled ASAP but do not require a call in the middle of the night. That's what I'm checking my email for.
... tech management of all sorts should count, right?
1. Check for the little red voicemail light, and listen to it in the unlikely event that there is one. (As it's probably either an emergency or someone calling out sick.)
2. Hook up laptop, turn on, and start logging in.
3. Say hello to immediate cube mates.
4. Log in screen #2.
5. Pull out paperwork that I took home with me in case I got sick or something happened that required me to work from home. If it's Monday, switch back the voicemail greeting to normal instead of work-from-home-on-Fridays. Water plant if applicable.
6. Start email logging in (#%^$ Lotus Notes is slow to start up), then other software I expect to use that day. Pull up To Do list, and make sure it's up to date and sorted properly (I use Excel).
7. Check calendar.
8. Read email - first any meeting updates or requests, then automated notifications, notes from the client, the project manager, my immediate work manager, my team, my general manager, requests for help from my peers, and then personal stuff, in that order.
9. Put out any fires (or more likely, get a team member working on them).
10. Buy breakfast and coffee.
11. Write quick email responses and make any adjustment to today's To Do list (while eating).
12. Actually begin working on items marked as "1. Urgent" on my list.
For the record, my team members would look at me oddly if I just randomly stopped by to say hello first thing in the morning, as they are all either a) in another part of the building, or b) in another state. I'll see and/or talk to them as a matter of course during the morning anyway, we'll chat then.
*raises hand* HR outsourcing here. I don't work directly with the hardware, so I have no idea how many we have, but I know that we shell out every year for at least one more to handle the increased open enrollment traffic.
I'm wondering where the hell all of you guys are working? In my (>10,000 person) outsourcing company, we female programmers are somewhere around 60% of the total. I guess I got lucky with getting this job.
I wonder where these numbers are coming from? I spend a lot of time on Livejournal, including some journals getting several hundred + hits a day as a matter of course. It's no 500,000 hits per day, but it's not as insignificant as that map shows. They're also linking out to unrelated blogs all the time, just like non-LJ blogs.
*raises eyebrow* You must be working in very limited circles. Admittedly I wouldn't consider our job to be "hard-core" programming, but slightly more than half of the programmers in my office are female, which would work out to be about 100 or so of us.
Oh yes, so true. I got lousy grades from grades 9 to 11 because I never did any homework, even though I aced most of my tests. (Grade 12 I decided to put some effort into it - not too much though - and I got straight A's.) We were too poor to have a computer, so I was mostly wasting time reading a book a day, though I was also watching TV, playing card games, etc. If I had been forbidden to read, I would have done more of those other activities. I definitely would not have spontaneously started studying just because I suddenly had a couple of free hours. Unmotivated children don't become motivated just because you take away a particular activity.
One of my computer science teachers in college told our class a hilarious story about how he almost failed out freshman year because they were playing cribbage all night every night.
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As can be seen from the graph below, schizophrenia definitely has a very significant genetic component. Those who have a third degree relative with schizophrenia are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia as those in the general population. Those with a second degree relative have a several-fold higher incidence of schizophrenia than the general population, and first degree relatives have an incidence of schizophrenia an order of magnitude higher than the general populace.
The causes of schizophrenia are not fully known. However, it appears that schizophrenia usually results from a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Schizophrenia has a strong hereditary component. Individuals with a first-degree relative (parent or sibling) who has schizophrenia have a 10 percent chance of developing the disorder, as opposed to the 1 percent chance of the general population. But schizophrenia is only influenced by genetics, not determined by it. While schizophrenia runs in families, about 60% of schizophrenics have no family members with the disorder. Furthermore, individuals who are genetically predisposed to schizophrenia don’t always develop the disease, which shows that biology is not destiny.
Unlike other genetic conditions such as Huntington's or cystic fibrosis, it is believed that no one single gene causes the disease by itself but rather that several genes are associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia. While schizophrenia occurs in one percent of the general population, having a history of family psychosis greatly increases the risk. Schizophrenia occurs at roughly ten percent of people who have a first-degree relative with the disorder, i.e., a parent or sibling. However, the highest risk occurs when an identical twin is diagnosed with schizophrenia. The unaffected twin has a roughly 50 percent chance of developing the disorder. The genetic component appears to extend beyond family environment. For example, children with a parent living with schizophrenia who were put up for early adoption still develop schizophrenia at a higher rate than the rest of the of the population.
Further down the page, the US government weighs in:
Scientists have long known that schizophrenia runs in families. The illness occurs in 1 percent of the general population, but it occurs in 10 percent of people who have a first-degree relative with the disorder, such as a parent, brother, or sister. People who have second-degree relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents, or cousins) with the disease also develop schizophrenia more often than the general population. The risk is highest for an identical twin of a person with schizophrenia. He or she has a 40 to 65 percent chance of developing the disorder. We inherit our genes from both parents. Scientists believe several genes are associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia, but that no gene causes the disease by itself.16 In fact, recent research has found that people with schizophrenia tend to have higher rates of rare genetic mutations. These genetic differences involve hundreds of different genes and probably disrupt brain development.
Some of those links include actual cites from scientific studies, by the way. I'm not going to bother locating physical copies of those journals and don't have a pubmed subscription, but you're welcome to look them up if you'd like.
Do you actually know anything about psychiatry, or are you just going by this particular article about a study that you think is iffy? Because it's not news that schizophrenia is at least partially hereditary, they've known that for decades. The same is true of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. The only debate is to what degree they are caused by hereditary versus environment. You can compare it to how diabetes runs in families, but in general can be triggered or not depending on your lifestyle. But some people will develop the disease even if they treat their body like a temple. This study has made the news because they're claiming to have identified the specific genes involved, not because there wasn't already general agreement that there were genes involved in predisposing someone to get schizophrenia.
Like bipolar disorder, it's been known to be at least partially hereditary for decades. I don't think this particular study is going to bring out the pitchforks and torches.
There are often times when I wish to be less connected. However, nice of you to make the decision as to where and when for everyone around you, too.
(I'm very sorry I don't have mod points today, as I'm betting most of this crowd don't get the joke. If it helps, I laughed, loudly.)
Interestingly, apparently some of the drivers have trained for unfamiliar tracks using... GT4, I think? And Speed had an amusing segment a few years ago where they filmed a driver (Nico Rosburg?) do a virtual run all the way around the track with his eyes closed, with an accompanying feed showing that it would be very nearly a perfect run on the real thing.
Wasn't this an episode of the Mentalist?
Permanent cruise ship homes already exist.
Yep, I just tried it myself (FiOS in the Philadelphia area). No problems. I luv you, FiOS.
It's called the Tetris effect, believe it or not. Even people with anterograde amnesia experience it, despite not remembering playing the game!
I was in group therapy with a man who had been fired from a high powered executive job that he had made his whole life, and his wife had asked for a divorce immediately after, and he had become deeply depressed. Despite the councilor's best efforts, so pointlessly angry that he refused to do anything like applying for a job that he felt was below the level of his previous job. As of his last day of the two month program, he was within a day of being thrown out of his condo. He was a perfectly nice guy, and I felt bad for him, so I gave real thought to inviting him home to stay with us for a couple of weeks. But in the end I let him walk out (after wishing him well, of course, and telling him to call if he had an emergency). I had been in therapy with him three days a week for a month, and KNEW that as long as he was living on my couch, he would do absolutely nothing to fix his situation, and in the end I'd need to kick him out into the same exact situation. I very much hope that he got it together once he experienced living in his car in NJ in February, but there was nothing I would be able to do to actually help him in any real way.
I had at least one professor who insisted that we stop taking notes during crucial parts of the lectures, in order to make sure we absorbed the concept instead of just writing down a summary of it.
Most definitely. :)
Just for clarity's sake (plus now I'm more awake), I am capable of the more touchy-feely kinds of management; I've had junior people working for me before (all in the same office as me, thankfully) that were happier or less stressed if I stopped by first thing in the morning to see if they needed anything. It's just not my strong point, so I default to treating people how I would like to be treated unless given a clear indication that they need a different approach. But in those cases I would still usually check my email first in case they had already sent me a specific question.
I get what you're saying. Though I will caveat that it depends on personalities as well - my manager chatting me first thing in the morning everyday for no particular reason would drive me INSANE with annoyance. Or at least make me paranoid that they're checking up on me for an unknown reason.
And if you ask me how something is going that I already sent you an email about.... *grrr*. Please tell me that this is only social - that you're at least looking at your email before asking for a status update!
... I'm not sure where you got from what I said that I was constantly checking my email?
Yes, it's the first thing that I do each morning, because that's where the emergencies will be. But I do have actual work to get done, plus IM and a phone if anybody needs anything during the day. I probably check for new email every couple of hours.
As I said above, my team is in four states and three time zones. They're expecting me to read their email about the critical issue holding them up; and then respond by email or IM, or phone if it's a really complicated question or response.
Virtual teams have changed how management works.
Also - and this may be because I manage software development, not IT - there are plenty of fires that need to be handled ASAP but do not require a call in the middle of the night. That's what I'm checking my email for.
... tech management of all sorts should count, right? 1. Check for the little red voicemail light, and listen to it in the unlikely event that there is one. (As it's probably either an emergency or someone calling out sick.) 2. Hook up laptop, turn on, and start logging in. 3. Say hello to immediate cube mates. 4. Log in screen #2. 5. Pull out paperwork that I took home with me in case I got sick or something happened that required me to work from home. If it's Monday, switch back the voicemail greeting to normal instead of work-from-home-on-Fridays. Water plant if applicable. 6. Start email logging in (#%^$ Lotus Notes is slow to start up), then other software I expect to use that day. Pull up To Do list, and make sure it's up to date and sorted properly (I use Excel). 7. Check calendar. 8. Read email - first any meeting updates or requests, then automated notifications, notes from the client, the project manager, my immediate work manager, my team, my general manager, requests for help from my peers, and then personal stuff, in that order. 9. Put out any fires (or more likely, get a team member working on them). 10. Buy breakfast and coffee. 11. Write quick email responses and make any adjustment to today's To Do list (while eating). 12. Actually begin working on items marked as "1. Urgent" on my list. For the record, my team members would look at me oddly if I just randomly stopped by to say hello first thing in the morning, as they are all either a) in another part of the building, or b) in another state. I'll see and/or talk to them as a matter of course during the morning anyway, we'll chat then.
*raises hand* HR outsourcing here. I don't work directly with the hardware, so I have no idea how many we have, but I know that we shell out every year for at least one more to handle the increased open enrollment traffic.
I'm wondering where the hell all of you guys are working? In my (>10,000 person) outsourcing company, we female programmers are somewhere around 60% of the total. I guess I got lucky with getting this job.
I wonder where these numbers are coming from? I spend a lot of time on Livejournal, including some journals getting several hundred + hits a day as a matter of course. It's no 500,000 hits per day, but it's not as insignificant as that map shows. They're also linking out to unrelated blogs all the time, just like non-LJ blogs.
*raises eyebrow* You must be working in very limited circles. Admittedly I wouldn't consider our job to be "hard-core" programming, but slightly more than half of the programmers in my office are female, which would work out to be about 100 or so of us.
Oh yes, so true. I got lousy grades from grades 9 to 11 because I never did any homework, even though I aced most of my tests. (Grade 12 I decided to put some effort into it - not too much though - and I got straight A's.) We were too poor to have a computer, so I was mostly wasting time reading a book a day, though I was also watching TV, playing card games, etc. If I had been forbidden to read, I would have done more of those other activities. I definitely would not have spontaneously started studying just because I suddenly had a couple of free hours. Unmotivated children don't become motivated just because you take away a particular activity.
One of my computer science teachers in college told our class a hilarious story about how he almost failed out freshman year because they were playing cribbage all night every night.
Assuming that you have a CD burner. Which we do on my husband's computer, but not on my laptop, which is where I have iTunes.