See below. Was digging through some old emails and stumbled across this
old cypherpunks post.
On 12/28/20 8:19 PM, Karl Semich wrote:
> (psychosis is scary. it causes slow well-documented brain damage.
> the antipsychotics cause a different kind of brain damage, kind of a
> pick-your-situation thing except where you have to pick one of the
> antipsychotics. they don't like to talk about those things.)
Hi Karl, can you link me to, or provide bibliography for, that
documentation of psychosis causing slow brain damage? I have heard that
claim many times, but do not know if it is true one way or the other.
Off the cuff, it seems likely to me that over time, with psychosis, or
antipsychotics, or both, dopamine processing would become increasingly
abnormal relative to the norm of, I don't know, people living off the
land in a soothing nonindustrial environment.
It's well documented that schizophrenia produces an increase of grey matter in some areas of the brain, and a larger loss of grey matter in other areas.
I'm afraid my actual bibliography is on a system that is presently difficult for me to access due because of symptoms of the current topic.
With machine learning, they've been mapping these things successfully using a variety of metrics, not just grey matter and MRI.
There was also a successful fmri neurofeedback study, where by identifying the pattern of a hallucination while in a machine, a patient could reliably be taught to prevent it. Many other neurofeedback studies have been following it. Sometimes you can find one accepting volunteers at
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ .
I can likely find more papers for you if needed. I have trouble moving around without having experiences similar to seizures.
But the normies are also
having their dopamine processing completely and dramatically disrupted
due to addictive internet media of various types.
When you live connected in the wilderness you quickly become a healthy genius. There are few studies, but if you've found the various ones that have been done it's easy to see there is little funding and little publicity for such things.