New ’100% accurate’ test diagnoses schizophrenics

Tests revealed schizophrenics find it harder to maintain a steady gaze
The eye tests are simple, cheap, and take only minutes to conduct, say researchers

Scientists have developed an almost 100 per cent accurate test to detect schizophrenics – by checking their gaze.

Impaired eye movement has long been thought to be associated with schizophrenia.

Now a new study has reported a model of testing which demonstrated 98 per cent accuracy in distinguishing between those [...]

Monetary Schizophrenia in Germany

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com

A pact with the devil—that’s now the official metaphor for the “unlimited” bond purchases that the European Central Bank has promised in order to bail out the holders of decomposing Eurozone debt. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann himself referred on Tuesday to Goethe’s Faust, a play based on the ancient tale of a scholar who sells his soul in exchange for knowledge and pleasure. Part Two of that play—and it ends tragically—sketched “the [...]

STUDY: Disease spread by pet cats infecting thousands; Could be linked to schizophrenia

KUALA LUMPUR – Is a certain cat parasite driving people to commit suicide?

A recently published international report has linked women infected with the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii ) with a higher risk of suicide attempts.

A new Universiti Malaya study has also shed some light on the correlation.

Parasitologist Assoc Prof Dr Veeranoot Nissapatorn said that out of 226 mentally-ill patients screened for T. gondii, 76 or 33.6 per cent [...]

AZ mass shooting patsy Jared Lee Loughner pleads guilty

Notice how with all these MK Ultra patsies they including their middle name (I.E. Lee Harvey Oswald)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/jared-loughner-plea-guilty-tucson-arizona-giffords-shooting-200803181.html

Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty on Tuesday, as expected, to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting spree at a grocery store just outside of Tucson, Ariz.

Loughner’s plea, coming after a federal judge ruled that he was competent to stand trial, means he will not [...]

Miami cannibal’s frenzied attack eating homeless man’s face now linked to cannabis-induced psychosis after tests found he was NOT high on bath salts

The Miami cannibal was not high on bath salts when he attacked 65-year-old Ronald Poppo and chewed off 75 percent of his face on May 26, the medical examiner found last week.

After marijuana was the only drug in Rudy Eugene’s body experts are investigating what drove him to carry out the horrifying attack with some speculating that it could have been a cannabis-induced psychosis.

The 31-year-old was once diagnosed with schizophrenia [...]

Miami cannibal’s frenzied attack eating homeless man’s face now linked to cannabis-induced psychosis after tests found he was NOT high on bath salts

The Miami cannibal was not high on bath salts when he attacked 65-year-old Ronald Poppo and chewed off 75 percent of his face on May 26, the medical examiner found last week.

After marijuana was the only drug in Rudy Eugene’s body experts are investigating what drove him to carry out the horrifying attack with some speculating that it could have been a cannabis-induced psychosis.

The 31-year-old was once diagnosed with schizophrenia [...]

Parasite tied to self-harm, suicide attempts

(Reuters Health) – Women who are infected with a common parasite may be more likely to hurt themselves or attempt suicide, a new study of over 45,000 new moms in Denmark suggests.

The infection, known as toxoplasmosis, is caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Humans can become chronically infected by eating undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables or by handling cat litter, as the parasite is known to multiply in the gut [...]

SHOCK: Women cat owners are ‘more likely to kill themselves’ due to higher chance of infection with parasite found in feline faeces

Women infected with Toxoplasma gondii are one-and-a-half times more likely to attempt suicide
Third of world’s population is infected with parasite, which hides in cells in the brain and muscles, often without producing symptoms

Female cat owners are more likely to suffer mental health problems and commit suicide because they can be infected with a common parasite that can be caught from cat litter, according to a study.

Women infected with the Toxoplasma [...]

US prisoner dies after denial of care

A black American prisoner suffering from several seizures died in his urine-soaked cell after he was denied healthcare in the US state of Minnesota.

Xavius Scullark-Johnson, 27, was three months away from getting out of the Rush City prison when he died in June 2010,Star Tribune reported.

The detainee was serving a five-month sentence for a probation violation stemming from a second-degree assault conviction.

His mother Olivia Scullark sued nurses, who turned away an [...]

URGENT: Four in five NHS trusts in England and Wales say patients are suffering “unacceptable” delays for drugs to treat life-threatening conditions

via telegraph:

Four in five NHS trusts in England and Wales say patients are suffering “unacceptable” delays for drugs to treat life-threatening conditions including cancer, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and organ failure.

A survey of 60 NHS authorities found that the shortage was doing patients “serious harm”, with some having to be admitted to hospital for emergency treatment after they were unable to get their medicines.

Pharmaceutical companies began rationing drugs to the NHS [...]

Outrage: California Police Taser, Choke, and Beat Another Schizophrenic Man To Death

Sounds very much like the Kelly Thomas murder in Fullerton last summer. Never call the police for “help” with someone having a problem — they will “help” them into an early grave!

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/khoa-anh-le-kelly-thomas-beating-el-monte-schizophrenia-police-159668315.html

Investigators: Police Tasered, Choked El Monte Man Who Died After Altercation

Detectives said El Monte police officers had been called to the family’s home twice before on similar calls
By Samantha Tata
| Wednesday, Jun 20, 2012 | Updated 8:50 AM PDT

An [...]

This time is different – Peak Facebook?

and notice that MySpace became ubiquitous considerably faster than Facebook.

 

and AH schizophrenia…

Source

 

The risk factors are an interesting read:

http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512222368/d287954ds1…

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

 

If we fail to retain existing users or add new users, or if our users decrease their level of engagement with Facebook, our revenue, financial results, and business may be significantly harmed.

 

The size of our user base and our users’ level of engagement are critical [...]

Newly-Released Surveillance Video Shows Police Officers Brutally Beating, Suffocating, and Tasing Kelly Thomas to Death

Via Carlos Miller at Photography is Not a Crimecomes the news that the Orange County DA finally released security footage of the brutal beating death of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, a homeless man from Fullerton, California.

Two police officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, are now on trial for the killing of Thomas, who suffered from schizophrenia. Cops used their fists and batons to beat Thomas. They Tasered him multiple times. Cause of death was apparently“mechanical [...]

The Demented “Old Normal” Speaks: Greenspan Forgets His Lines From Year Ago, Now Hearts QE

Forget ‘irrational exuberance’, forget ‘deregulation of derivatives’, Big Al is back and this time he seems to have forgotten any- and every-thing we has ever said. It was only a year ago thatGreenspan told CNBC ”I am ill-aware of anything that really worked. Not only QE2 but QE1” and yet today the mumbling-’maestro’ pronounces, via Bloomberg:

*GREENSPAN SAYS EQUITY STIMULUS IS HELPING TO DRIVE ECONOMY
*GREENSPAN SAYS EQUITY STIMULUS IS UNDERESTIMATED
*GREENSPAN SAYS EQUITY IS COLLATERAL OF FINANCIAL [...]

Norway massacre gunman ‘not insane’

“The experts’ main conclusion is that the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, is not considered to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on July 22, 2011,” the Oslo district court said in a statement which reopens the debate on whether the self-confessed killer can be sent to prison.

“That means that he is considered criminally responsible at the time of the crime.”

The new evaluation counters the findings of an [...]

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

Fascinating article about how parasites CAN significantly affect your behavior. Scientific studies on extroversion/introversion, risk behaviors, rates of car accidents, suicide, etc. Read especially if you have cats.

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
“…Schizophrenia did not rise in prevalence until the latter half of the 18th century, when for the first time people in Paris and London started keeping cats as pets…”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/

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Goldman: A Clean Resolution From Friday’s Summit Is Now Ruled Out; Outcome To Fall Short Of Market Expectations

The schizophrenia continues, this time as Goldman lays out the “Failure Frday” hypothesis in an attempt to incite some waterfalling risk off-taking, leading to escalating interventions by domestic governments (all of which captured just for this eventuality) and culmiating with the unleashing of the puppet head of the ECB, but not before GS has had the opportunity to sequester some assets on the cheap. We have rehashed this outlook so many times [...]

Empathy and True Stories from the 99 Percent

The media has spent a lot of time asking about the specific grievances of the protesters in the “Occupy” movement. Rather than ask people camped out at one of the protests, they need look no further than at the heart-wrenching reminders of what life is really like in the United States at We Are the 99 Percent. The site is filled with photos of real [...]

Mother, son go out for pizza after relative falls to floor and later dies then then hid her body

When Mary Coleman died in May 2009, two days after she fell to the floor at her sister’s house, her sister and nephew decided there was nothing they could do about it and went out for pizza.

Then, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday, Veronica King and her son, Steven King, kept Coleman’s death a secret, hiding her body in the basement and then the garage of the house on [...]

Must Read: Howard Marks’ Take On Gold: “I have no doubt: gold is the ideal investment”

by zh

The Oaktree Chairman presents one the better comprehensive pieces on the precious metal, laying out both the pros and cons. Presenting the current broad schizophrenia when debating the value of of gold, Marks, in a comparative allegory to 1952 opinion of Noah “Soggy” Sweat on whiskey, Marks states: “I have no doubt: gold is the ideal investment“…yet…”Gold has no financial value other than that [...]

Must-read: Equities Go Full Retard As Rates Run For Cover

by ZH

To see the prevailing schizophrenia gripping the two different sets of mindsets in the market right now, look no further than than the surging divergence between equity vol and implied correlation (VIX, JCJ) and credit vol (via swaptions: USSV011). The chart below shows that even as equity traders are going full retard into QE2, and expecting the Fed’s Brian Sack to expense their purchases [...]