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Last week, Dr. Appel flew to Liberia to keep the doors open at \u003ca href=\"http://www.adventistdirectory.org/viewEntity.aspx?EntityID=13526\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Adventist\u003c/a>, a small hospital in the capital, Monrovia, focusing on remaining available to patients with anything but Ebola. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201408210850/b\" target=\"_blank\">talked Thursday morning\u003c/a> with The California Report's Rachael Myrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appel described Liberia as \"shutting down\" around him. \"There's a curfew that's been initiated. Many businesses are not open; all the schools are closed, government offices are closed,\" Appel told Myrow. \"So for example our hospital is not getting paid by the insurance companies, because insurance companies are closed. The whole economy is coming to a standstill.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appel said that people are starting to think there will be food shortages. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>People with schizophrenia often have a hard time explaining what it’s like to hear voices. “There’s a huge range of voice hearing experiences,” says Nev Jones, postdoctoral fellow in anthropology at Stanford University who was treated for her psychotic symptoms in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It’s not like wearing an iPod”, says the Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrman. “It’s like being surrounded by a gang of bullies.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There can be “voices that are more thought-like,” says Jones, “voices that sound like non-human entities, voices that are perceived as the direct communication of a message, rather than something you’re actually hearing.” Voices aren’t always voices, either. They can sound more like a murmur, a rustle or a beeping. But when a voice is a recognizable voice, more than often, it’s not very nice. “It’s not like wearing an iPod”, says the Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrman. “It’s like being surrounded by a gang of bullies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few of the people I’ve met over the last few months I’ve spent reporting on young people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, or experienced symptoms that seemed, possibly, pre-schizophrenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EFRAIN PACHECO\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Efrain Pacheco is 21 and lives in San Diego. He can’t remember exactly when the voices began, in part because he thought everyone heard them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162033993″&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162033993″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Schizophrenia: New Thinking, New Treatments \u003c/strong>This is the third story in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/schizophrenia-new-thinking-new-treatments/\">three-part series\u003c/a> looking at the changing science of schizophrenia and emerging treatments.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part One: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/new-clinics-in-california-seek-to-stop-schizophrenia-before-it-starts/\">New Clinics in California Seek to Stop Schizophrenia Before it Starts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part Two: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/what-is-schizophrenia-scientists-call-for-new-thinking/\">What Is Schizophrenia? Scientists Call for New Thinking\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today he takes an anti-psychotic drug, Risperdal, which has mostly quieted them. Sometimes he misses them, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FRANKIE MORENO\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Frankie Moreno is 25, and also lives in San Diego. About four years ago, his reality started to shift. At first, he heard “random noises,” like the sound of running on the roof. The sounds evolved into two voices, speaking just out of range of hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162034446″&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162034446″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp> Over time, the voices got louder and more threatening, until one night, they told him to hurt himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>REAGAN\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe profiled Reagan in the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/new-clinics-in-california-seek-to-stop-schizophrenia-before-it-starts/\">first story in this series\u003c/a>. She’s 23 and lives in Simi Valley. Her hallucinations were visual, not auditory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162034827″&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162034827″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp> She knew they couldn’t be real, but they still terrified her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WILL HALL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Hall was in his 20s when the film \u003cem>The Matrix\u003c/em> came out. He was obsessed with it, and thought it had been written for him, specifically. He heard voices telling him that he had caused the Columbine massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162181136″&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162181136″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">In California, \u003ca href=\"http://prepwellness.org/prep-san-francisco/\">PREP\u003c/a> offers mental health services to young people and their families. Schizophrenia.com offers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophrenia.com/earlypsychosis.htm\">resource page\u003c/a> that includes other states. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nami.org/\">The National Alliance on Mental Illness\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Your_Local_NAMI&Template=/CustomSource/AffiliateFinder.cfm\">chapters\u003c/a> in every state and offers support to families. The young people in this story received help at \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstartsd.org/\">Kickstart\u003c/a>, in San Diego.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He found that as he listened to the voices, and tried to understand where they were coming from, the voices became kinder and more supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANDREA VALLEJO\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis last one is Andrea Vallejo, who works for a program in San Diego called Kickstart, which treats kids in the very earliest stages of schizophrenia. I met her when she and other Kickstart staff had taken a bunch of clients, between 10 and 25 years old, to fly kites at San Diego’s Seaport Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162033392″&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162033392″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp> Vallejo’s job is to help kids stay in school, connected to friends and family. The slide into isolation can make everything, including auditory and visual hallucinations, much worse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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No one really knows what most of those [genes] do.’\u003ccite>— Seung Kim, Stanford\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Problem is, scientists don’t understand enough about these genes to know which ones are the real culprits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are scores of these genes that have been linked but not proven to have a causative role in diabetes,” said Seung Kim, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and the senior author of the study. “No one really knows what most of those [genes] do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s possible to study the genes in mice or in human cells, Kim says it’s extremely laborious and expensive. He thinks fruit flies will offer researchers an easier, faster and cheaper way to study the genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Type 2 diabetes is characterized by the body’s inability to properly create or respond to insulin, a molecule that regulates blood sugar. Practically all animals, including fruit flies, use insulin to control how they metabolize sugar. And while flies may seem a far cry from humans, Kim says they are a reasonable experimental stand-in for studying the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To study diabetes in flies, Kim first needed a way to monitor the insulin in the tiny creatures’ blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the size of a fruit fly is obviously very small, it doesn’t have much blood,” Kim explained. “Measuring insulin in fruit flies has been a real challenge in the field, and something we’ve been trying to overcome for several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Drosophila-Dime-University-of-Missouri-e1407359205217.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Drosophila-Dime-University-of-Missouri-e1407359205217.jpg\" alt=\"The small size of fruit flies makes it difficult to measure insulin levels in their blood. 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German is the Clinical Director of the UCSF Diabetes Center and was not involved in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>German points out that fruit flies are just the first step toward figuring out how diabetes works in humans. “Ultimately anything that you find out from flies you then have to confirm in mammals and in humans,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But using flies as an experimental model is a good starting point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that sometimes people undervalue these kinds of models,” says German. “They really are remarkably powerful, and we can find things in these models that we would never find if we just tried to study humans, or if we just tried to study mice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, Kim will use his fruit fly system to study the many human genes associated with Type 2 diabetes. 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Suddenly, it was a strain even to sit through class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would come home from school exhausted,” Veronica recalls. “She’d go to a corner in the living room and just sit there, away from everybody.” (Veronica asked us not to use her family’s last name, because Jasmin is still a minor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2721px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1068-e1406926256788.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1068-e1406926256788.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmin heads out to the beach in San Diego on a windy day, to fly a kite. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\" width=\"2721\" height=\"2617\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 15, Jasmin was intensely sensitive to noise and light; her grades dropped. 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She’s looking at you, but she’s not comprehending who you are, where she is.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It feels like your child is not there,” Veronica says. “She’s looking at you, but she’s not comprehending who you are, where she is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Jasmin recovered from her catatonic state, but only after things got much worse: a diagnosis of psychosis, a brief hospitalization and powerful anti-psychotic drugs that caused a 40-pound weight gain over three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the worst of it have been avoided had doctors paid closer attention to Jasmin’s earliest symptoms, particularly her sudden problems with schoolwork and her sensitivity to noise and bright lights?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new generation of schizophrenia researchers believes these struggles may be some of the earliest symptoms of schizophrenia, symptoms of a cognitive decline that may precede, even cause the delusions and hallucinations the disease is famous for. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Mysterious Disease\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schizophrenia is twice as common as Alzheimer’s disease, but almost nothing is known about how it works in the body. As with most other mental illnesses, there’s no blood test for schizophrenia, no scan that can diagnose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, schizophrenia is defined by symptoms patients describe about themselves, particularly a blurring of the boundaries of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A patient may hear strange, often threatening voices that no one else can hear. She may believe she is being spied on through her television, that she is telepathic, or that newspaper articles contain hidden messages directed at her alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These strange behaviors – hallucinations and delusions — have defined the disease since it was first formally described in 1950. The word “schizophrenia” means, literally, “split mind”: a division between what the patient believes is real and what most other people would agree is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Society’s preoccupation with hallucinations and delusions is easy to understand, says Sophia Vinogradov, a psychiatrist and researcher at the San Francisco VA hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20239\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/schiz-graphic.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20239\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/schiz-graphic.png\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"790\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re right there, in your face,” Vinogradov says. “And they’re frightening. They’re frightening for the person who has them and they’re frightening for society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that’s why anti-psychotic drugs, which were developed in the 1960s, seemed like such a breakthrough. Until then, nothing else had worked to help people with schizophrenia.“Up until that point we had wrapping them in wet towels, locking them in a padded cell,” Vinogradov says. “Frontal lobotomies if the behavior was really out of control. I mean, what did we have? So when antipsychotic medications did evolve, and they did reduce psychotic symptoms, it was like the heavens had opened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drugs came with powerful side effects. They left some people virtually comatose. Even the modern versions can cause serious weight gain. That’s one reason people with schizophrenia are at least twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, scientists have begun asking whether the voices are better viewed as a symptom of something else, says Vikaas Sohal, a researcher at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone came to you with cancer and said, ‘My back is hurting, my gums bleed, I’m tired, I have headaches,'” Sohal says, “okay, there’s all these things, but that’s not what cancer is. Cancer is this group of cells that are dividing uncontrollably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, giving antipsychotics to a person with schizophrenia may be like giving painkillers to someone with cancer. It might help, but it’s not getting at the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cognitive Decline as the First Sign of Disease \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basic cognitive problems may precede hallucinations and delusions by a decade or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elaine Walker, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Emory University, studied home movies of young children and \u003ca href=\"http://www.psycontent.com/content/9181225j68206743/\">noticed\u003c/a> that children who would later develop schizophrenia seemed to walk differently than the control group. Their gait seemed particularly abnormal on the left side of their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Schizophrenia: New Thinking, New Treatments\u003c/strong>This is the second story in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/schizophrenia-new-thinking-new-treatments/\">three-part series\u003c/a> looking at the changing science of schizophrenia and emerging treatments.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part One: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/new-clinics-in-california-seek-to-stop-schizophrenia-before-it-starts/\">New Clinics in California Seek to Stop Schizophrenia Before it Starts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part Three: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/schizophrenia-what-its-like-to-hear-voices/\">Schizophrenia: What It’s Like to Hear Voices\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Other studies point to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=1950\">decline in IQ\u003c/a> that happens over the time the disease develops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the early stages of schizophrenia “seem to have problems focusing attention, planning, trouble with encoding and storing memories,” says Daniel Mathalon, a neuroscientist at UCSF. “Patients sometimes say they used to be able to read books, now they can’t read books. They can’t sustain focus. They used to build models, now they don’t. They used to be able to play the guitar well, now that’s deteriorated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents hope, he says, that the problems are “just a phase that an adolescent is going through. Sometimes it is, but sometimes it’s the predecessor to a full-blown psychotic illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Problem of Information Overload\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, scientists have begun to talk about schizophrenia as a disease of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12505794\">salience\u003c/a>,” in which the brain loses the ability to tune out information that isn’t useful or relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are walking down the street trying to have a conversation and their brain is being flooded with the sound of the door slamming, the airplane going overhead,” says Vinogradov, of the San Francisco VA hospital. “The brain is starting to process all of that information as if it has meaning, and is something the brain needs to pay attention to and needs to do something about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, the theory goes, that’s what gives rise to hallucinations and delusions. The mind seeks explanations for the extra data coming in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pay attention to everything,” says UCSF’s Sohal, “you might start paying attention to coincidences, and you might get paranoid. Or you might pay even more attention to your own thoughts and start thinking, ‘These are other peoples thoughts.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3456px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1025.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1025.jpg\" alt=\"Young people taking part in a mental illness prevention program called Kickstart fly kites at San Diego's Seaport Village. Marvi/KQED)\" width=\"3456\" height=\"3456\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people taking part in a mental illness prevention program called Kickstart fly kites at San Diego’s Seaport Village. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Treatments Emerge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you change how you define a disease, you begin to change how you treat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly people in the early stages of schizophrenia are prescribed fish oil and exercise, to support basic brain functioning. Drug companies are \u003ca href=\"http://schizophrenia.com/?p=110\">working\u003c/a> on new medicines that could do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Citywide Mental Health Center in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, Vinogradov is leading \u003ca href=\"http://vinogradovlab.com/#/sectpage/4560739020\">a study\u003c/a> to see whether the brain can be, essentially, re-taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A middle-aged man named George, wearing a crisp short-sleeved shirt, sits at a computer. He’s wearing plastic gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why the gloves?” I ask him. “Gloves?” he says. “So the cosmic dust doesn’t get on my hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George can see my voice, he tells me. It looks “yellow, with light pinkish color.” He wants to know whether I’ve ever seen voices, or would like to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” I tell him. “Is it a good thing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Giving antipsychotics to a person with schizophrenia may be like giving painkillers to someone with cancer. It might help, but it’s not getting at the cause.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” he answers. “You can understand life in general better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel like you understand things other people don’t?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course,” George says. “It makes you superior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we talk, George drags his cursor across the screen, following directions from a cognitive training exercise designed by the San Francisco software company Posit Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Move the boy to the school,” the voice intones. George complies. He supplies his own commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK, he’s going to school, see? Cutting, smoking cigarettes in the back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers tend to avoid the term “video games.” These exercises are about as much fun as brushing your teeth. The idea here is to train George to tune out distractions and focus on simple instructions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another exercise repeats a word, like asking the user to click on the emotion that best describes how the word is said. They’re given four choices: happy, angry, sad and neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For Some People, Not All. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea here isn’t to replace anti-psychotic drugs, at least not for everyone. Vinogradov says there are some people whose voices or delusions are so destructive, so violent, that they need to be turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for another group of people, doctors might be able to focus on a different set of questions, Vinogradov says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this person able to have the kind of life they want? Are they able to have friends, to have people who they can love, who can love them back? Are they able to keep food and shelter?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinogradov, Mathalon and others point to studies showing that delusions and hallucinations aren’t always the factors that interfere with a person’s ability to lead a fulfilling life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By focusing on cognitive problems, says Mathalon, “we might have greater impact on outcomes for patients. We might have a greater impact on whether they can successfully work, have relationships, than if we just quell their psychotic symptoms, keep the voices from intruding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silencing the voices with big doses of anti-psychotic drugs may, in some cases, do more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The first sign of trouble, says Veronica, was when her daughter’s grades started to slip. At 15, Jasmin had been an honor roll student in her San Diego middle school. Suddenly, it was a strain even to sit through class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would come home from school exhausted,” Veronica recalls. “She’d go to a corner in the living room and just sit there, away from everybody.” (Veronica asked us not to use her family’s last name, because Jasmin is still a minor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2721px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1068-e1406926256788.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1068-e1406926256788.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmin heads out to the beach in San Diego on a windy day, to fly a kite. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\" width=\"2721\" height=\"2617\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 15, Jasmin was intensely sensitive to noise and light; her grades dropped. Some psychiatrists believe she was experiencing early symptoms of psychosis. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Jasmin remembers from that time is an acute sensitivity to sound and light. She wore dark sunglasses around the house and asked her family to turn the music down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a headache or anything, it would just bother me,” Jasmin recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months, she had declined to the point where she couldn’t go to school, couldn’t eat without assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It feels like your child is not there. She’s looking at you, but she’s not comprehending who you are, where she is.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It feels like your child is not there,” Veronica says. “She’s looking at you, but she’s not comprehending who you are, where she is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Jasmin recovered from her catatonic state, but only after things got much worse: a diagnosis of psychosis, a brief hospitalization and powerful anti-psychotic drugs that caused a 40-pound weight gain over three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the worst of it have been avoided had doctors paid closer attention to Jasmin’s earliest symptoms, particularly her sudden problems with schoolwork and her sensitivity to noise and bright lights?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new generation of schizophrenia researchers believes these struggles may be some of the earliest symptoms of schizophrenia, symptoms of a cognitive decline that may precede, even cause the delusions and hallucinations the disease is famous for. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Mysterious Disease\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schizophrenia is twice as common as Alzheimer’s disease, but almost nothing is known about how it works in the body. As with most other mental illnesses, there’s no blood test for schizophrenia, no scan that can diagnose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, schizophrenia is defined by symptoms patients describe about themselves, particularly a blurring of the boundaries of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A patient may hear strange, often threatening voices that no one else can hear. She may believe she is being spied on through her television, that she is telepathic, or that newspaper articles contain hidden messages directed at her alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These strange behaviors – hallucinations and delusions — have defined the disease since it was first formally described in 1950. The word “schizophrenia” means, literally, “split mind”: a division between what the patient believes is real and what most other people would agree is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Society’s preoccupation with hallucinations and delusions is easy to understand, says Sophia Vinogradov, a psychiatrist and researcher at the San Francisco VA hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20239\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/schiz-graphic.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20239\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/schiz-graphic.png\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"790\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re right there, in your face,” Vinogradov says. “And they’re frightening. They’re frightening for the person who has them and they’re frightening for society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that’s why anti-psychotic drugs, which were developed in the 1960s, seemed like such a breakthrough. Until then, nothing else had worked to help people with schizophrenia.“Up until that point we had wrapping them in wet towels, locking them in a padded cell,” Vinogradov says. “Frontal lobotomies if the behavior was really out of control. I mean, what did we have? So when antipsychotic medications did evolve, and they did reduce psychotic symptoms, it was like the heavens had opened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drugs came with powerful side effects. They left some people virtually comatose. Even the modern versions can cause serious weight gain. That’s one reason people with schizophrenia are at least twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, scientists have begun asking whether the voices are better viewed as a symptom of something else, says Vikaas Sohal, a researcher at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone came to you with cancer and said, ‘My back is hurting, my gums bleed, I’m tired, I have headaches,'” Sohal says, “okay, there’s all these things, but that’s not what cancer is. Cancer is this group of cells that are dividing uncontrollably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, giving antipsychotics to a person with schizophrenia may be like giving painkillers to someone with cancer. It might help, but it’s not getting at the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cognitive Decline as the First Sign of Disease \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basic cognitive problems may precede hallucinations and delusions by a decade or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elaine Walker, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Emory University, studied home movies of young children and \u003ca href=\"http://www.psycontent.com/content/9181225j68206743/\">noticed\u003c/a> that children who would later develop schizophrenia seemed to walk differently than the control group. Their gait seemed particularly abnormal on the left side of their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Schizophrenia: New Thinking, New Treatments\u003c/strong>This is the second story in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/schizophrenia-new-thinking-new-treatments/\">three-part series\u003c/a> looking at the changing science of schizophrenia and emerging treatments.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part One: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/new-clinics-in-california-seek-to-stop-schizophrenia-before-it-starts/\">New Clinics in California Seek to Stop Schizophrenia Before it Starts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part Three: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/schizophrenia-what-its-like-to-hear-voices/\">Schizophrenia: What It’s Like to Hear Voices\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Other studies point to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=1950\">decline in IQ\u003c/a> that happens over the time the disease develops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the early stages of schizophrenia “seem to have problems focusing attention, planning, trouble with encoding and storing memories,” says Daniel Mathalon, a neuroscientist at UCSF. “Patients sometimes say they used to be able to read books, now they can’t read books. They can’t sustain focus. They used to build models, now they don’t. They used to be able to play the guitar well, now that’s deteriorated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents hope, he says, that the problems are “just a phase that an adolescent is going through. Sometimes it is, but sometimes it’s the predecessor to a full-blown psychotic illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Problem of Information Overload\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, scientists have begun to talk about schizophrenia as a disease of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12505794\">salience\u003c/a>,” in which the brain loses the ability to tune out information that isn’t useful or relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are walking down the street trying to have a conversation and their brain is being flooded with the sound of the door slamming, the airplane going overhead,” says Vinogradov, of the San Francisco VA hospital. “The brain is starting to process all of that information as if it has meaning, and is something the brain needs to pay attention to and needs to do something about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, the theory goes, that’s what gives rise to hallucinations and delusions. The mind seeks explanations for the extra data coming in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pay attention to everything,” says UCSF’s Sohal, “you might start paying attention to coincidences, and you might get paranoid. Or you might pay even more attention to your own thoughts and start thinking, ‘These are other peoples thoughts.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3456px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1025.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/20140618_Schizo_1025.jpg\" alt=\"Young people taking part in a mental illness prevention program called Kickstart fly kites at San Diego's Seaport Village. 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Cutting, smoking cigarettes in the back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers tend to avoid the term “video games.” These exercises are about as much fun as brushing your teeth. The idea here is to train George to tune out distractions and focus on simple instructions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another exercise repeats a word, like asking the user to click on the emotion that best describes how the word is said. They’re given four choices: happy, angry, sad and neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For Some People, Not All. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea here isn’t to replace anti-psychotic drugs, at least not for everyone. Vinogradov says there are some people whose voices or delusions are so destructive, so violent, that they need to be turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for another group of people, doctors might be able to focus on a different set of questions, Vinogradov says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this person able to have the kind of life they want? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/07/20140728science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/Unknown-1-e1406323367960.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/Unknown-1-e1406323367960.jpeg\" alt=\"Reagan was 19 when she started having hallucinations. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19747\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reagan was 19 when she started having hallucinations. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The important thing is that Reagan knew something was wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met her, she was 23, a smart, wry young woman living with her mother and stepdad in Simi Valley, about an hour east of Ventura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reagan” had just started a program that would train her to be a respiratory therapist. Concerned about future job prospects, she asked me not to use her real name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, Reagan’s prospects weren’t nearly so bright. At 19, she had been severely depressed, on and off, for years. During the bad times, she’d hide out in her room making thin, neat cuts with a razor on her upper arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t do much of anything,” Reagan recalls. “It required too much brain power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nIn schizophrenia, the loss of insight signals a psychotic break, the formal commencement of the disease itself.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Her depression just sucked the life out of you,” Kathy, Reagan’s mother, recalls. “I had no idea what to do or where to go with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night in 2010, Reagan’s mental state took an ominous new turn. Driving home from her job at McDonald’s, she found herself fascinated by the headlights of an oncoming car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had the weird thought of, you know, I’ve never noticed this, but their headlights really look like eyes.” To Reagan, the car seemed malicious. It wanted to hurt her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy tried to reason with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like ‘honey you know it’s a car, right? You know those are headlights, right?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘So you understand that this makes no sense.’ ‘I know, but this is what I see, and it’s scaring me.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, Reagan had insight, defined in psychiatry as the ability to understand that one’s experiences are attributable to a mental illness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Reagan saw did not fit with what she believed. She knew she was hallucinating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/imageslider/schizophreniasliders.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"680\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Disease That Unfolds Over Time\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In schizophrenia, the loss of insight signals a psychotic break, the formal commencement of the disease itself. Typically, a first psychotic break occurs in a person’s late teens or early 20s. In men, the range is 15-24; in women, 25-34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, says Rachel Loewy, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF, the onset coincides with an abrupt change in a young person’s life, such as leaving home for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every November we get a huge influx of people who went off to college, into a stressful environment, heading into finals. That’s when we see a lot of first psychotic episodes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Schizophrenia: New Thinking, New Treatments\u003c/strong>This is the first story in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/schizophrenia-new-thinking-new-treatments/\">three-part series\u003c/a> looking at the changing science of schizophrenia and emerging treatments.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part Two: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/what-is-schizophrenia-scientists-call-for-new-thinking/\">What Is Schizophrenia? Scientists Call for New Thinking\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part Three: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/schizophrenia-what-its-like-to-hear-voices/\">Schizophrenia: What It’s Like to Hear Voices\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Loewy, who has helped develop several \u003ca href=\"http://prepwellness.org/prep-san-francisco/\">early-intervention programs\u003c/a> in San Francisco and elsewhere, says schizophrenia’s timeline –- hitting a young person at what should be the brink of independence — can make the disease devastating for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [young person] drops out of college, goes home, doesn’t get a job. He or she never transitions to adulthood,” Loewy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first psychotic break can precede a cavalcade of disasters: social isolation, hospitalization, medications with sometimes disabling side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what if you could intervene earlier, before any of that? Could you stop the process from snowballing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 19, Reagan hadn’t had a psychotic break. She still had insight. That made her eligible for a new type of program taking shape in California that aims to prevent schizophrenia before it officially begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs draw on research suggesting that schizophrenia unfolds much more slowly than might be obvious, even to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A genetic predisposition, perhaps triggered by environmental factors, the thinking goes, sets the course of a process that can play out over months, even years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">New research suggests schizophrenia unfolds much more slowly than might be obvious, even to families.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You start to see a decline in their functioning,” says Daniel Mathalon, who studies brain development in the early stages of psychosis at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were doing better in school, now they’re doing worse,” he says. “Maybe they had friends but they’re starting to be more isolated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, these subtle behavioral shifts may take on a surreal quality. A young person may hear faint whispers or hissing, or see flashes of light or shadows on the periphery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They lack delusional conviction,” explains Mathalon. “They’re experiencing these things; maybe they’re suspicious. But they’re not sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have a word for that state of uncertainty: prodromal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘We Can Stop the Progression of the Disease.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan took a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophrenia.com/sztest/SIPS.details.htm\">screening test\u003c/a> developed at Yale University that identified her as, possibly, within the prodromal stage of psychosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was referred to a clinic in an office park about an hour from her house called \u003ca href=\"http://www.telecarecorp.com/programs/124\">Ventura Early Intervention Prevention Services\u003c/a>, or VIPS, operated by Alameda-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.telecarecorp.com/\">Telecare Corporation\u003c/a> and run by an affable former football player with a doctorate in psychology named Barry Boatman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can slow or stop the progression of that thing as it’s beginning,” Boatman says, “not only are we changing that person’s life, forever, and those who love them, we can save the system millions of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about ten clinics like this one in California. (Schizophrenia.com offers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophrenia.com/earlypsychosis.htm\">resource guide\u003c/a> to early-intervention clinics across the U.S. and internationally.) VIPS, which has a $600,000 annual budget, is one of several run by for-profit companies that contract with counties to provide mental services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others partner with non-profit providers or research institutions like UCSF or UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, participants pay nothing. The programs are funded out of the state’s Mental Health Services Act, a one percent income tax on millionaires that voters passed in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money buys what’s essentially a two-year, full-court press on kids like Reagan, whose symptoms could be early signs of schizophrenia: family therapy, individual therapy, homework help, job counseling, exercise, often medications. Clients can be as young as ten years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1440-e1406326398447.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1440-e1406326398447.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Wood, an occupational therapist at Kickstart in San Diego, took Tony, 13, out to an arcade as a reward for participating in family therapy sessions. (Marvi Lacar/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19749\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Wood, an occupational therapist at Kickstart in San Diego, took Tony, 13, out to an arcade as a reward for participating in family therapy sessions. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After meeting Reagan, I went to San Diego to meet Ashley Wood and a 13-year-old named Tony at John’s Incredible Pizza Company, an arcade and all-you-can-eat buffet in a mall just south of town. They were playing Whack-a-Mole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood is an occupational therapist for another prodrome-intervention program called \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstartsd.org/\">Kickstart\u003c/a>, based in San Diego. Tony is one of her clients. He has spiky black hair and wears cargo shorts and a plastic rosary around his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he started with Kickstart, Tony had been getting in fights. He was angry at his mom, angry in school. And there was something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to see and hear stuff,” he tells me, “like weird objects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I press him for more details, he turns the questions on me. “Are you a reporter?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood laughs, looking at Tony. “Too many questions, eh?” He smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s job is to help Tony with basic life skills, such as asking for things he needs without getting frustrated. When the pizza parlor’s ice cream machine sputters, she coaches him on how to ask an attendant for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he’s frustrated at school or at home, instead of immediately responding,” Wood says, she’s helping him “find a way to communicate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to work on the impulse control as well. He’s come a long way, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1609-e1406326575325.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1609-e1406326575325.jpg\" alt=\"Wood is teaching Tony to control his anger and communicate better with his family. (Marvi Lacar/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19750\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood is teaching Tony to control his anger and communicate better with his family. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Experiment Before Its Time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impulsive, unruly, prone to angry outbursts, Tony sounds like a lot of 13-year-old kids. And that’s what makes this type of program controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the American Psychiatric Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/psychosis-risk-syndrome-excluded-from-dsm-5-1.10610\">opted to exclude\u003c/a> the idea of “psychosis risk syndrome” from its DSM-5 manual of mental disorders, largely because the screening test is generally considered to be only 30 percent accurate. Of three kids who seem to fit the prodrome, only one will actually go on to develop psychosis, or schizophrenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a \u003ca href=\"http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD004718/SCHIZ_early-intervention-for-psychosis\">review\u003c/a> of prodrome intervention programs called the idea of intervention in pre-schizophrenia “inconclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/psychosis-risk_b_1289022.html\">vocal critics\u003c/a> of prodrome intervention is Allen Frances, a former professor of psychiatry at Duke University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an experiment far before its time,” says Frances. “We need to be doing this as research before we spread this across the country and risk the harm to the individuals and risk the misallocation of resources in a society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re running up against the limits of what we can do for patients with chronic schizophrenia.’ \u003ccite>— Daniel Mathalon, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bill McFarlane, a Maine psychiatrist whose PIER Training Institute helped establish several prodrome clinics in California, says he’s seen clear benefits — including \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24632857\">reduced hospitalization rates\u003c/a> — in Portland, Maine, where the Portland Identification and Early Referral Program he established served psychosis risk clients for over a decade. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other proponents say schizophrenia’s early window may be too precious to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re running up against the limits of what we can do for patients who develop schizophrenia, once it goes to chronic stages,” UCSF’s Mathalon says. “I think this is a direction we have to go in, but we have to do it carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course when you’re the parent of a kid in trouble you aren’t asking those questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she started the program, Reagan’s mom and step-father, Charlie, say they saw very little future for their daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought we were going to have to take care of her for the rest of her life,” says Kathy. “I thought she’d forever be marginal, forever be medicated. 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In men, the range is 15-24; in women, 25-34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, says Rachel Loewy, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF, the onset coincides with an abrupt change in a young person’s life, such as leaving home for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every November we get a huge influx of people who went off to college, into a stressful environment, heading into finals. That’s when we see a lot of first psychotic episodes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Schizophrenia: New Thinking, New Treatments\u003c/strong>This is the first story in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/schizophrenia-new-thinking-new-treatments/\">three-part series\u003c/a> looking at the changing science of schizophrenia and emerging treatments.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part Two: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/what-is-schizophrenia-scientists-call-for-new-thinking/\">What Is Schizophrenia? Scientists Call for New Thinking\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part Three: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/schizophrenia-what-its-like-to-hear-voices/\">Schizophrenia: What It’s Like to Hear Voices\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Loewy, who has helped develop several \u003ca href=\"http://prepwellness.org/prep-san-francisco/\">early-intervention programs\u003c/a> in San Francisco and elsewhere, says schizophrenia’s timeline –- hitting a young person at what should be the brink of independence — can make the disease devastating for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [young person] drops out of college, goes home, doesn’t get a job. He or she never transitions to adulthood,” Loewy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first psychotic break can precede a cavalcade of disasters: social isolation, hospitalization, medications with sometimes disabling side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what if you could intervene earlier, before any of that? Could you stop the process from snowballing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 19, Reagan hadn’t had a psychotic break. She still had insight. That made her eligible for a new type of program taking shape in California that aims to prevent schizophrenia before it officially begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs draw on research suggesting that schizophrenia unfolds much more slowly than might be obvious, even to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A genetic predisposition, perhaps triggered by environmental factors, the thinking goes, sets the course of a process that can play out over months, even years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">New research suggests schizophrenia unfolds much more slowly than might be obvious, even to families.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You start to see a decline in their functioning,” says Daniel Mathalon, who studies brain development in the early stages of psychosis at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were doing better in school, now they’re doing worse,” he says. “Maybe they had friends but they’re starting to be more isolated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, these subtle behavioral shifts may take on a surreal quality. A young person may hear faint whispers or hissing, or see flashes of light or shadows on the periphery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They lack delusional conviction,” explains Mathalon. “They’re experiencing these things; maybe they’re suspicious. But they’re not sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have a word for that state of uncertainty: prodromal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘We Can Stop the Progression of the Disease.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan took a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophrenia.com/sztest/SIPS.details.htm\">screening test\u003c/a> developed at Yale University that identified her as, possibly, within the prodromal stage of psychosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was referred to a clinic in an office park about an hour from her house called \u003ca href=\"http://www.telecarecorp.com/programs/124\">Ventura Early Intervention Prevention Services\u003c/a>, or VIPS, operated by Alameda-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.telecarecorp.com/\">Telecare Corporation\u003c/a> and run by an affable former football player with a doctorate in psychology named Barry Boatman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can slow or stop the progression of that thing as it’s beginning,” Boatman says, “not only are we changing that person’s life, forever, and those who love them, we can save the system millions of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about ten clinics like this one in California. (Schizophrenia.com offers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.schizophrenia.com/earlypsychosis.htm\">resource guide\u003c/a> to early-intervention clinics across the U.S. and internationally.) VIPS, which has a $600,000 annual budget, is one of several run by for-profit companies that contract with counties to provide mental services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others partner with non-profit providers or research institutions like UCSF or UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, participants pay nothing. The programs are funded out of the state’s Mental Health Services Act, a one percent income tax on millionaires that voters passed in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money buys what’s essentially a two-year, full-court press on kids like Reagan, whose symptoms could be early signs of schizophrenia: family therapy, individual therapy, homework help, job counseling, exercise, often medications. Clients can be as young as ten years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1440-e1406326398447.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1440-e1406326398447.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Wood, an occupational therapist at Kickstart in San Diego, took Tony, 13, out to an arcade as a reward for participating in family therapy sessions. (Marvi Lacar/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19749\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Wood, an occupational therapist at Kickstart in San Diego, took Tony, 13, out to an arcade as a reward for participating in family therapy sessions. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After meeting Reagan, I went to San Diego to meet Ashley Wood and a 13-year-old named Tony at John’s Incredible Pizza Company, an arcade and all-you-can-eat buffet in a mall just south of town. They were playing Whack-a-Mole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood is an occupational therapist for another prodrome-intervention program called \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstartsd.org/\">Kickstart\u003c/a>, based in San Diego. Tony is one of her clients. He has spiky black hair and wears cargo shorts and a plastic rosary around his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he started with Kickstart, Tony had been getting in fights. He was angry at his mom, angry in school. And there was something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to see and hear stuff,” he tells me, “like weird objects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I press him for more details, he turns the questions on me. “Are you a reporter?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood laughs, looking at Tony. “Too many questions, eh?” He smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s job is to help Tony with basic life skills, such as asking for things he needs without getting frustrated. When the pizza parlor’s ice cream machine sputters, she coaches him on how to ask an attendant for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he’s frustrated at school or at home, instead of immediately responding,” Wood says, she’s helping him “find a way to communicate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to work on the impulse control as well. He’s come a long way, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1609-e1406326575325.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/20140618_Schizo_1609-e1406326575325.jpg\" alt=\"Wood is teaching Tony to control his anger and communicate better with his family. (Marvi Lacar/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19750\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood is teaching Tony to control his anger and communicate better with his family. (Marvi Lacar/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Experiment Before Its Time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impulsive, unruly, prone to angry outbursts, Tony sounds like a lot of 13-year-old kids. And that’s what makes this type of program controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the American Psychiatric Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/psychosis-risk-syndrome-excluded-from-dsm-5-1.10610\">opted to exclude\u003c/a> the idea of “psychosis risk syndrome” from its DSM-5 manual of mental disorders, largely because the screening test is generally considered to be only 30 percent accurate. Of three kids who seem to fit the prodrome, only one will actually go on to develop psychosis, or schizophrenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a \u003ca href=\"http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD004718/SCHIZ_early-intervention-for-psychosis\">review\u003c/a> of prodrome intervention programs called the idea of intervention in pre-schizophrenia “inconclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/psychosis-risk_b_1289022.html\">vocal critics\u003c/a> of prodrome intervention is Allen Frances, a former professor of psychiatry at Duke University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an experiment far before its time,” says Frances. “We need to be doing this as research before we spread this across the country and risk the harm to the individuals and risk the misallocation of resources in a society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re running up against the limits of what we can do for patients with chronic schizophrenia.’ \u003ccite>— Daniel Mathalon, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bill McFarlane, a Maine psychiatrist whose PIER Training Institute helped establish several prodrome clinics in California, says he’s seen clear benefits — including \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24632857\">reduced hospitalization rates\u003c/a> — in Portland, Maine, where the Portland Identification and Early Referral Program he established served psychosis risk clients for over a decade. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other proponents say schizophrenia’s early window may be too precious to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re running up against the limits of what we can do for patients who develop schizophrenia, once it goes to chronic stages,” UCSF’s Mathalon says. “I think this is a direction we have to go in, but we have to do it carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course when you’re the parent of a kid in trouble you aren’t asking those questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she started the program, Reagan’s mom and step-father, Charlie, say they saw very little future for their daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought we were going to have to take care of her for the rest of her life,” says Kathy. “I thought she’d forever be marginal, forever be medicated. 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