Schizophrenia

And she’s right.The lair of the Minotaur of Greek mythology has a counterpart here in the indoor maze of a very odd library.Vine has written a gripping psychological mystery novel that isn’t even somewhat painful to read.

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Researchers at University Hospital at Zurich found that subjects given a dose of dopamine were more prone to seeing faces and words when scrambled patterns appeared on a screen in front of them.

Peter Brugger, the neurologist who led the study, says the results show that dopamine not only plays a role in detecting patterns in visual displays but probably in perceiving patterns - real or not - in events.

A tendency to spot patterns and connect the dots is the foundation of conspiracy theorizing.

"If there is too much [dopamine], you begin to develop hallucinations and delusions, including delusional ideas of reference," Brugger says in an e-mail message.

A long tradition Conspiracy theories are nothing new.

For centuries, theories swirled that Pope Sixtus IV was involved in the assassination of the powerful Medici brothers in Florence, Italy.

There was no dearth of speculation about what really happened in Lincoln's assassination.

And suspicions about the Freemasons' world domination plot originated in the 18th century.

But it was the assassination of John F.

Kennedy that marked the point when conspiracy theories took on a whole new dimension in American culture.

"The Kennedy assassination is the first mass-mediated traumatic event that spawned conspiracies," says Mark Fenster, author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture.

"It was the advent of cheap publishing for paperbacks.

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It is the most debilitating psychiatric disorder, requiring a disproportioned share of medical resources due to its early onset and chronic and severe nature.

Modern views on ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b stem from Krapelin (1971) and Bleuler (1950), who underlined long-term deterioration and explicated loose associations in the disease process, respectively.

It has since evolved and the medical community has adopted a more objective and rounded diagnostic criteria found in the DSM-IV.

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New York: Krieger.[The GNIF Brain Blogger "BPS" series of articles aims to define the biopsychosocial model, explicate its implications in healthcare, characterize the nature of past and present perceptions of health and what factors influenced change, delineate the position of health psychology in different environments, and reveal the methods used to study biopsychosocial interactions.] Home posted by GNIF @ 3/26/2006 0 ...