http://ripsychotherapy.com/blog/2009/07/the-genetics-of-schizophrenia-bipolar-disorder-and-schizoaffective-disorder/ Thoughts about psychotherapy and mental health issues Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ripsychotherapy.com/blog/2009/07/the-genetics-of-schizophrenia-bipolar-disorder-and-schizoaffective-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Jamie Shue Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:56:02 +0000 http://ripsychotherapy.com/blog/?p=367#comment-327 Yeah maybe...though genetic studies are still in their infancy, plus genetics in general is not a well elucidated field in humans yet. I've read that bipolar with psychosis follows a different mechanism than schzoaffective/schizophrenia psychosis, since it (usually) responds to mood stabilizers that act on the axons. Schioaffective/schizophrenia supposedly is an actual loss of grey matter, resulting in persistent cognitive deficits, which is not present in bipolar with psychosis. I agree with your first opinion that psychiatrists unsure of a diagnosis put people in the schizoaffective box instead of the other two boxes. I think schizophrenia and bipolar have similar symptoms, maybe share some defective DNY, but different origins and we don't know enough about the genetics of mental illness to prove otherwise. Yeah maybe…though genetic studies are still in their infancy, plus genetics in general is not a well elucidated field in humans yet. I’ve read that bipolar with psychosis follows a different mechanism than schzoaffective/schizophrenia psychosis, since it (usually) responds to mood stabilizers that act on the axons. Schioaffective/schizophrenia supposedly is an actual loss of grey matter, resulting in persistent cognitive deficits, which is not present in bipolar with psychosis. I agree with your first opinion that psychiatrists unsure of a diagnosis put people in the schizoaffective box instead of the other two boxes. I think schizophrenia and bipolar have similar symptoms, maybe share some defective DNY, but different origins and we don’t know enough about the genetics of mental illness to prove otherwise.

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