now, that doesn't mean cure schizophrenia. it means that it remits the symptom, the episode, and iare about half whenwn someone is treated with drugs when you compare with somedy who is not treated with drugs. the spect scan offers a valuable opportunity see how drugs afft the prefrontal cortex in acute schizophrenics. this spect scan showthe acvity in a normal individual's brain when carrying out a cognitive task. the ominent red spot in the right frontal cortex indicates there's activity in this part of the brai that's used for planning and other executive functions. in the unmedicated chronic schizophrenics, there's no red spot in the top right. this means that the prefrontal cortex hasn't been activated in these patients. once on phenothiazine medication, the scans of chronic schizophrenics show a marked difference. although there's no prominent red spot, as in the normals, it reflects more normal functioning in that brain region. for most medicated patients, symptoms of schizophrenia can be reduced markedly thfollowg pati

if you have schizophrenia -- just pretend. what do you see that is different? these areas are much different, much more engaged. you might see there is a lot more blue as well in this map. look at this area. it is very different than that area, much more engaged. if you have a bipolar illness, you are different than if you have schizophrenia. they could have this illness or in this illness, those are the two most common. physicians cannot tell the difference, but mri scanners can. the legal system, i can use this instead of psychiatrists to support or are not my client has a mental illness. they would be able to inform and make decisions about how these things should be used in the legal system. what about this guy? anthony hopkins. what does his brain look like? if

. >> and that, say, schizophrenia. we're not in that category of drugs here, are we? >> it is highly unlikely for people in new york to pop antipsychotics for the fun of it. >> we're not talking about bipolar, are we? >> we end up talking about that, and that's in ariel's article. >> is it a national trend or just in manhattan? >> i'm sure it is true for washington, but i don't know how true it is representative for the united states. >> let's try a few names here. you have put here on your cover both the condition and the drug that might meet the condition. bumped into ex-girlfriend, viagra. big dinner to organize. ritalin. chewed out by the boss, perk s set. n won't take to toilet training, valium. hate to socialize, have to socialize, paxil. time to kick back, vicodin. is that a gray hair? valium? husband wants some space:pin. clonopin. >> had too many cocktails. viagra. what else do we have here. i'm reading a few. got seventh parking ticket this month, xanax. got rejection slip from publisher. vicodin. deadline pushed up, ritalin. always a bridesmaid -- zoloft. i

and this translates into a tremendous kind of schedulessia, like i have -- schizophrenia, like i wasaying and what is creating a backlash to the reclamation of jesus is an inordinate fear of the christian right and i think that's part of the problem that we face of trying to answer the question that jesus asked who do you say that i am? >> there's something else that could added here and that's the involvement of ann katharine emmer rich 1774-1824. a german miss stick and a stick maddic. why do i bring her up? >> she was a major influence on mel gibson in terms of her making the atmosphere of the. the claim has been it's based on the gospels but the gospels aren't really a screenplay or a treatment of acreenplay, they're a very, very brief outline for such a movie and he took a lot of the scenes directly from her vision. >> summarized a an awful lot, brentano published her writings and then they were enlarged upon and what you have at the end, according is that the net resulo that much of this is about fiction as opposed to being in any way drawn from the -- in any real wayrawn from

well, i think the situation for people with severe mental illness, and by that i'm referring to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. but it includes a wide range of psychiatric disorders. that their challenges certainly overlap with the, the two populations that, that dave and neli just mentioned. and, oh, about half of them have substance abuse problems of the severe mentally ill group. the, the challenges that they have are, are not what you might expect. the first thing that pops into people's heads might be, or often is, that they have psychiatric symptoms that prevent them from working. and that turns out not to be the biggest barrier. there are a range of things that really interfere with their getting into employment. they want to work. the majority of them want to work. our statistics suggest over two-thirds want to work. even though, as you indicated earlier, a very small percentage, maybe as little as 10 percent in some of our surveys, are actually working at a given time. there's a big gap there. and the reasons, the barriers, include the lack of encouragement and help from the ment

there are other forms of illness like schizophrenia where it's different.nic of are violent. the stigma around that. he woo hear about mass shootings, the next thing you hear is i bet he was schizophrenic. part of what i heard in the political ether around representative jackson, congressman jackson is he's lying. he's trying to avoid federal investigation so he's not really sick. i think that's part of what that bipolar stigma is. if he was on our show that day, how could he have collapsed later in the day. >>> schizophrenia, for example, there are aggregate studies that show as a group, people with schizophrenia are far less violent than the general populous. but we build prisons and reinforce that idea through a structural violence that reinforces the stigmatizations of illness. it's structural. >> one of the structures we can begin to say is making some improvement is the affordable care act. the achievement of president obama's first term. it's moving us towards parity with the aca and particularly emphasizing integration and coordination of physical a

studies show that disorders like depression and anxiety, even schizophrenia, our moral -- are more commonin city dwellers than in people who live in the countryside. constant noise, confined spaces, and the frequent need to rush to meet deadlines all add up to a stressful lifestyle. many people also feel socially isolated, despite being surrounded by crowds of people. but what exactly is it about city life that is so harmful? this team of researchers believe that finding that out is essential. >> we estimate that by 2050, 2/3 of the world's population will live in cities. that will be a massive, social ecological change for humanity -- socio-ecological change for humanity. >> they examined the brains of volunteers, using computer tomography. the technology allows scientists to observe blood circulation in different regions of the brain to show which regions are most active. after majoring base levels, the researchers subjbjbjbjbjbjbjbjbs subjected the volunteers to stress-provoking stimuli. >> the amygdala is a kind of danger sensor. there is something dangerous or unsettling in the envir

that's all. >> anderson is being treated for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. >> this is tommy. dick's mother. >> bipolar disorder, there are two poles. hypertension, you're really hyperactive and you just want to stay up all night because you feel really good and then you start dipping. it could be five minutes and you go to another pole. >> $50 on the bag. >> you just -- you just -- i was like, man, i just wanna kill myself. this is ridiculous. and then oh, man, i'm glad i'm alive. but the lithium carbonate keeps you like this. >> our goal is to get people with mental illness out into general population, to have jobs, to go to school and to do everything that everybody else does here. so they're all throughout the facility. >> most of these guys are going to be returning to the streets. not everyone is sent to prison with a life sentence. and with that in mind, i think i would feel safer and feel better about these people going back to the streets with the kind of skills that we can provide them, instead of just opening the doors when their sentence is done and hoping the best

that new study refers to schizophrenia and the new drug it was found is better than the existing drug, right? >> yes, that's right this. is a very important studdy and it demonstrated in a large population that the older antipsychotic drug, heldol, was more affective than the newer category called a typical antipsychotics. and it really speaks to the fact that we have a buys, all of us, consumers, physicians, we assume that new means improved. and in fact, what is really true is that needs to be established by solid evidence and not just assumption. this is a very important study for the federal government. very important study for state government. because this category of drugs is a substantial expense for the medicaid program. >> what's the cost between haldol and the new drug that came out? >> it's a difference between haldol and a entire category, the a typical antisigh cotics. it's a many expense. that doesn't mean haldol is the right drug for every patient but what this study demonstrate said when you look at a large population, for a substantial number of patients, the older n

. >> there is a wide range, a wide spectrum of the reasons people end up on the street to schizophrenia individuals to destiewt individuals and peel who are optunistic about it and have hotels or other parts of the bay area and all of them need to be dealt with compassionately with resources, with outreach, but i don't think we need -- you know the department of public health is quite familiar with these reasons that people are out on the streets and we have great programs like project homeless connect. i was proud to do outreach with that organization, but whether it is people who need service because they are very, very sick for whatever reason, all the way down to people who do need to be moved along by people on the street and law enforcement and programs and not giving handouts and looking at it compassionately and with resources and outreach. >> thank you very much. >> this is a very serious problem. one in four visitors to san francisco cites homelessness as a reason not to come back. we have a new program in november with judge katherine fine stein will put in warrants and citat

schizophrenia is hard to see when you just see someone but when you have a chance to see what their behavior is like, it becomes apparent, yes, this person is quite disabled. having access where people normally pass this person by and say this person looks able-bodied, why can't they get a job. why is this person, quote, mooching off the system. when you get to know these people that isn't what's going on. it is the fact people are dependent on a certain substance where if they didn't have the substance fizz owe physiologically they wouldn't be able to get through the day. when we offered her a ram for the first time she said, no, no, this is my building, my family owns it and i'm keeping an eye on it. and of course she was in her dirty sleeping bag and was unkept. having these rooms is an important first step to people getting the help they need. we have structured it in a way people leave these rooms when they move into permanent housing. so there's no artificial time limit. we started off thinking a week, two weeks, four weeks, would be helpful. our current average stay is about 8 months.

have a critical mass, or a group therapy may not work for an individual with- who suffers from schizophrenia or who suffers from a cognitive disability or something like autism where there is a relationship issue. but you have to figure those things out. on the other hand, someone with physical limitations may simply need accommodation for the physical limitation if there's no corresponding cognitive issue. so the most important thing is an individual assessment and a willingness to accommodate the-the needs of that individual. and with regard to traumatic brain injury, we expect a large number of individuals coming back from the wars to suffer from either traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injuries et cetera. we need to be able to accommodate that and recognize that subissues, when you look at prevalence rate, is associated with traumatic brain injury and-and-and spinal cord injury. in the case of our returning veterans, it's a matter of recognizing that drinking is, if you suffer from traumatic brain injury, drinking is a no-no. the problem is, from a social point of view, drinking is a

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decision makings, some objective evidence, some evidence to bolster things like a diagnosis of schizophrenia or i.q., all the better. at the same time we need the critics in the courtroom explaining the shortcomings of the science so that we don't have false evidence that is introduced or undue reliance on science that isn't quite there yet. my preference is recognize it's already there, but make sure that we have robust discussions about the validity of the science before people buy into it too much. >> yeah, i would just add that i basically agree that it's already in the courtroom. however, i would caution that it's not in the courtroom for all uses. justice breyer in a case which was the third of the trilogy which is basically the supreme court weighing in on the admissibility of scientific evidence or expert evidence more generally, justice breyer referred to making sure that the science works for the task at hand. this notion of the task at hand i think ought not to be forgotten. the neuroscience might work for certain tasks very well and for other tasks not so well. so i think we have