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May 20, 2007Test to Detect Gene Variant Responsible for Cannabis-Induced SchizophreniaScientists in the United Kingdom are working on a marketable test to determine if a person is a carrier of a gene which would put them at a greatly increased risk of cannabis / marijuana-induced schizophrenia. The gene type was isolated by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. It is believed to increase the risk of becoming ill from the use of cannabis by five times. Currently, we have only been able to put members of families with a history of schizophrenia into the category of being at greatest risk of developing a mental illness from the drug. This test will hopefully be able to determine others who would be included in this high-risk category. The test, which is hoped to provide an early warning system for vulnerable patients, is expected to be a simple and inexpensive mouth swab test in the form of a "Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Kit". Dr. Marta Di Forti, a psychiatrist and clinical researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry is conducting a three-year study into genetics and psychosis. She says that the research is not at a stage where a test can determine for a person that if he/she has one gene variant he/she is safe, but if a different variant is detected, the person is not safe. But the hope is that the DNA screening could be used to predict vulnerability. The research says, about this one gene type: As many as one in four Britons is at increased risk of developing cannabis-related mental health problems. They have what is known as a "val val" variant of the gene that regulates dopamine levels, compared with those of the "met met" type who have no increased risk. Read the article: Simple DIY kit will show mental health dangers of cannabis: Experts isolate gene associated with schizophrenia risk Related Reading:
Posted by Jeanie Wolfson at May 20, 2007 05:15 AM
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For God sake I hope you take some serious consideration in this decition. I find weed to help considerably with my problem. It provides a mellow alternate cousiousness for me to ride and see things about myself, others and the thoughts I have had in a brighter light. I find it quite possible to compleatly cure yourself through posative re-constuction and a healthy dose of meditation with marijuanna. Smoakin' weed will numb your everything, smooth your soul and allow you to feel who you are without getting cut by your past...like a mental massage, dealing with your pain...in time you will find a new level of understanding and that's the road to happiness. My children will hopefully be born into a world where it is legal. More and more people and becoming schizo in THIS country because of the music, tv, movies, sex, insecurities. etc. Nature, like marijuanna is being ignored and things that the ultimate powers WANT us to have; alcohol, cigerettes, cars, cell phones; for THEIR plan of the future is being shoved down our throughts like the goose to foie gras. I'll get off my soap box now.
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