Re: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- There's a wonderful argentinian film about a similar subject : Hombre Mirando al Sudeste (Man Facing Southeast). I recommend it to you if you can get it, check IMDB. Regards -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Euphorian Sent: Sábado, 23 de Marzo de 2002 05:59 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia? -Caveat Lector- On 22 Mar 2002 at 22:47, Samantha L. wrote: If Christ ever returns for his touted second coming, he's going to be in a world of hurt. COL. Would anyone recognise him? Or, how many centuries would pass before who they recognised was really recognised as the one to be recognised? AER A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. == == Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- On 22 Mar 2002 at 22:47, Samantha L. wrote: If Christ ever returns for his touted second coming, he's going to be in a world of hurt. COL. Would anyone recognise him? Or, how many centuries would pass before who they recognised was really recognised as the one to be recognised? AER A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- Pet Theory Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia? by Stephen Mihm http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/cover_pet.html I THINK CATS ARE GREAT, says E. Fuller Torrey. His office decor would seem to confirm this statement: A cat poster hangs on one wall; a cat calendar sits on his desk; and a framed picture of a friend's cat leans against the windowsill. He even admits to having a cat library at home. But Torrey's interest in felines is a bit different from that of your typical cat lover. That's because Torrey, a psychiatry professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Science and the enfant terrible of mental health research, believes that Felis domestica may carry infectious diseases that could cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. My wife thinks I'm going to be assassinated by cat owners, says Torrey with a sigh. In fact, I like cats. Unfortunately, if we are correct that they transmit infections... Here his voice trails off, and he pensively fingers his closely cropped beard. Torrey often speaks in a self-deprecating manner of his delusional notions, but he's dead serious about the cat connection. He thinks typhoid tabbies are passing along Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that causes brain lesions and, if Torrey is right, schizophrenia. Torrey first made the argument nearly thirty years ago. It was considered psychotic, he admits. But since then, his ideas, though still outside the mainstream, have attracted converts, most notably the Johns Hopkins virologist Robert Yolken, with whom he now collaborates. Together, they're trying to prove that toxoplasmosis is but one of several infectious diseases that cause most cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It helps their case that previous explanationsbad mothering, bad geneshave proven deficient to varying degrees. But Torrey and Yolken have also uncovered some hard evidence to support their claims, and they are about to put their theory to the test with clinical trials of drugs that are new to the psychopharmacological arsenal: antibiotics and antivirals similar to those used by AIDS patients. If the duo finds that such drugs alter the course of schizophrenia, Yolken observes, their results would represent a major advance in the treatment of this devastating disease as well as in understanding its basic etiology. SCHIZOPHRENIA is a cruel disease, Torrey has written, with considerable understatement. Although it affects only 1 percent of the population, schizophrenia is among the most debilitating forms of mental illness. Trapped in a world of private delusions, a schizophrenic might cling, for example, to the belief that he is Jesus Christ, or that the government has implanted a monitoring device in his mouth during a routine dental procedure. Visual and auditory hallucinations can range from the terrifying to the merely strange: gigantic spiders, voices that insult or instruct. Some schizophrenics withdraw, becoming mute or catatonic; others remain communicative but incoherent, jumping from one topic to another without logical connections. With little or no warning, schizophrenia usually manifests itself in patients between the ages of sixteen and thirty. From then on, the illness waxes and wanes, with symptoms generally becoming less severe as the patient ages. Psychotherapy is of little help to schizophrenics, but medication and constant medical care enable over 50 percent to make a full recovery. Still, relapses are common, and many patients spend their lives in halfway houses and institutions. Approximately 40 percent of schizophrenics don't get the help they need and end up on the streets or in prisonsor committing suicide. There has never been a consensus on schizophrenia's etiology or cause. Many nineteenth-century psychiatrists thought it was a biological disorder; some speculated that it might have an infectious origin. As far back as 1845, the French neurologist Jean E. Esquirol wrote that mental alienation is epidemic. He added: It is certain that there are years when...insanity seems suddenly to extend to a great number of individuals. In 1874, the American Journal of Insanity published a lengthy brief titled On the Germ-Theory of Disease. By the early twentieth century, doctors like Eugen Bleuler had suggested that the connection of [schizophrenia] to infectious process equally needs further study. An outbreak of psychoses after the 1918 influenza epidemic and the discovery that syphilis could cause dementia lent further credence to such theories. In 1922, the psychiatrist Karl Menninger hypothesized that schizophrenia was in most instances the by-product of viral encephalitis. Menninger later became a prominent Freudian psychoanalyst, following a career trajectory that mirrored a larger movement in American psychiatry away from biological explanations of mental illness. By the 1950s, Freudian thought had solidified its grip on the American psychiatric profession. That also happened to be the
Re: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- Get 100 volunteers. Randomly assign 3 to pet groups. Cat; small cat-sized dog; rabbit; no-pet. Follow up with thorough psych testing. The cost would be a pittance compared to the cost of treating cat schizos. POC On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Steve Wingate wrote: -Caveat Lector- Pet Theory Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia? by Stephen Mihm http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/cover_pet.html I THINK CATS ARE GREAT, says E. Fuller Torrey. His office decor would seem to confirm this statement: A cat poster hangs on one wall; a cat calendar sits on his desk; and a framed picture of a friend's cat leans against the windowsill. He even admits to having a cat library at home. But Torrey's interest in felines is a bit different from that of your typical cat lover. That's because Torrey, a psychiatry professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Science and the enfant terrible of mental health research, believes that Felis domestica may carry infectious diseases that could cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. My wife thinks I'm going to be assassinated by cat owners, says Torrey with a sigh. In fact, I like cats. Unfortunately, if we are correct that they transmit infections... Here his voice trails off, and he pensively fingers his closely cropped beard. Torrey often speaks in a self-deprecating manner of his delusional notions, but he's dead serious about the cat connection. He thinks typhoid tabbies are passing along Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that causes brain lesions and, if Torrey is right, schizophrenia. Torrey first made the argument nearly thirty years ago. It was considered psychotic, he admits. But since then, his ideas, though still outside the mainstream, have attracted converts, most notably the Johns Hopkins virologist Robert Yolken, with whom he now collaborates. Together, they're trying to prove that toxoplasmosis is but one of several infectious diseases that cause most cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It helps their case that previous explanationsbad mothering, bad geneshave proven deficient to varying degrees. But Torrey and Yolken have also uncovered some hard evidence to support their claims, and they are about to put their theory to the test with clinical trials of drugs that are new to the psychopharmacological arsenal: antibiotics and antivirals similar to those used by AIDS patients. If the duo finds that such drugs alter the course of schizophrenia, Yolken observes, their results would represent a major advance in the treatment of this devastating disease as well as in understanding its basic etiology. SCHIZOPHRENIA is a cruel disease, Torrey has written, with considerable understatement. Although it affects only 1 percent of the population, schizophrenia is among the most debilitating forms of mental illness. Trapped in a world of private delusions, a schizophrenic might cling, for example, to the belief that he is Jesus Christ, or that the government has implanted a monitoring device in his mouth during a routine dental procedure. Visual and auditory hallucinations can range from the terrifying to the merely strange: gigantic spiders, voices that insult or instruct. Some schizophrenics withdraw, becoming mute or catatonic; others remain communicative but incoherent, jumping from one topic to another without logical connections. With little or no warning, schizophrenia usually manifests itself in patients between the ages of sixteen and thirty. From then on, the illness waxes and wanes, with symptoms generally becoming less severe as the patient ages. Psychotherapy is of little help to schizophrenics, but medication and constant medical care enable over 50 percent to make a full recovery. Still, relapses are common, and many patients spend their lives in halfway houses and institutions. Approximately 40 percent of schizophrenics don't get the help they need and end up on the streets or in prisonsor committing suicide. There has never been a consensus on schizophrenia's etiology or cause. Many nineteenth-century psychiatrists thought it was a biological disorder; some speculated that it might have an infectious origin. As far back as 1845, the French neurologist Jean E. Esquirol wrote that mental alienation is epidemic. He added: It is certain that there are years when...insanity seems suddenly to extend to a great number of individuals. In 1874, the American Journal of Insanity published a lengthy brief titled On the Germ-Theory of Disease. By the early twentieth century, doctors like Eugen Bleuler had suggested that the connection of [schizophrenia] to infectious process equally needs further study. An outbreak of psychoses after the 1918 influenza epidemic and the discovery that syphilis could cause dementia lent further credence to such theories. In 1922, the psychiatrist Karl Menninger hypothesized that schizophrenia was in most instances the by-product of
Re: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/22/02 12:20:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trapped in a world of private delusions, a schizophrenic might cling, for example, to the belief that he is Jesus Christ, or that the government has implanted a monitoring device in his mouth during a routine dental procedure. LOL. If Christ ever returns for his touted second coming, he's going to be in a world of hurt. Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- Steve, As a person raised around cats most of my life I have made an observation. Cats themselves have what a vet friend used to call the cat crazies. This is when for instance a quiet dozing cat will suddenly jump up like a bat out of hell, tear around the room chasing heaven knows what, meow and vocalize at no one or nothing in particular, run up the drapes, etc. This behavior is most commonly observed in young cats but will occasionally be seen in all cats. Some people who I have known the smoke reefer have been known to blow a little smoke at their cat. The report that they instantly get the cat crazies. Cat themselves seem to have an interesting brain / thought process pattern so its not entirely impossible that some of this might rub off on the humans in their lives. Whether this is due to a virus or not I can't say (as no one has ever stood up to vouch for my sanity ever). I enjoy cat behavior very much but many people absolutely detest cats. Do you know that the only member of the cat family mentioned in the bible is the lion (in the old or new testaments). This is very strange because the Egyptians just about worshiped cats and thought very highly of them. Also cats will often find you and just walk into your life ( and sometimes leave that way too). magnetic_field - Original Message - From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: [CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia? -Caveat Lector- Pet Theory Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia? by Stephen Mihm http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/cover_pet.html I THINK CATS ARE GREAT, says E. Fuller Torrey. His office decor would seem to confirm this statement: A cat poster hangs on one wall; a cat calendar sits on his desk; and a framed picture of a friend's cat leans against the windowsill. He even admits to having a cat library at home. But Torrey's interest in felines is a bit different from that of your typical cat lover. That's because Torrey, a psychiatry professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Science and the enfant terrible of mental health research, believes that Felis domestica may carry infectious diseases that could cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. My wife thinks I'm going to be assassinated by cat owners, says Torrey with a sigh. In fact, I like cats. Unfortunately, if we are correct that they transmit infections... Here his voice trails off, and he pensively fingers his closely cropped beard. Torrey often speaks in a self-deprecating manner of his delusional notions, but he's dead serious about the cat connection. He thinks typhoid tabbies are passing along Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that causes brain lesions and, if Torrey is right, schizophrenia. Torrey first made the argument nearly thirty years ago. It was considered psychotic, he admits. But since then, his ideas, though still outside the mainstream, have attracted converts, most notably the Johns Hopkins virologist Robert Yolken, with whom he now collaborates. Together, they're trying to prove that toxoplasmosis is but one of several infectious diseases that cause most cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It helps their case that previous explanations-bad mothering, bad genes-have proven deficient to varying degrees. But Torrey and Yolken have also uncovered some hard evidence to support their claims, and they are about to put their theory to the test with clinical trials of drugs that are new to the psychopharmacological arsenal: antibiotics and antivirals similar to those used by AIDS patients. If the duo finds that such drugs alter the course of schizophrenia, Yolken observes, their results would represent a major advance in the treatment of this devastating disease as well as in understanding its basic etiology. SCHIZOPHRENIA is a cruel disease, Torrey has written, with considerable understatement. Although it affects only 1 percent of the population, schizophrenia is among the most debilitating forms of mental illness. Trapped in a world of private delusions, a schizophrenic might cling, for example, to the belief that he is Jesus Christ, or that the government has implanted a monitoring device in his mouth during a routine dental procedure. Visual and auditory hallucinations can range from the terrifying to the merely strange: gigantic spiders, voices that insult or instruct. Some schizophrenics withdraw, becoming mute or catatonic; others remain communicative but incoherent, jumping from one topic to another without logical connections. With little or no warning, schizophrenia usually manifests itself in patients between the ages of sixteen and thirty. From then on, the illness waxes and wanes, with symptoms generally becoming less severe as the patient ages. Psychotherapy
[CTRL] Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
-Caveat Lector- Pet Theory Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia? by Stephen Mihm http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/cover_pet.html "I THINK CATS ARE GREAT," says E. Fuller Torrey. His office decor would seem to confirm this statement: A cat poster hangs on one wall; a cat calendar sits on his desk; and a framed picture of a friend's cat leans against the windowsill. He even admits to having a "cat library" at home. But Torrey's interest in felines is a bit different from that of your typical cat lover. That's because Torrey, a psychiatry professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Science and the enfant terrible of mental health research, believes that Felis domestica may carry infectious diseases that could cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. "My wife thinks I'm going to be assassinated by cat owners," says Torrey with a sigh. "In fact, I like cats. Unfortunately, if we are correct that they transmit infections..." Here his voice trails off, and he pensively fingers his closely cropped beard. Torrey often speaks in a self-deprecating manner of his "delusional" notions, but he's dead serious about the cat connection. He thinks "typhoid tabbies" are passing along Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that causes brain lesions and, if Torrey is right, schizophrenia. Torrey first made the argument nearly thirty years ago. "It was considered psychotic," he admits. But since then, his ideas, though still outside the mainstream, have attracted converts, most notably the Johns Hopkins virologist Robert Yolken, with whom he now collaborates. Together, they're trying to prove that toxoplasmosis is but one of several infectious diseases that cause most cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It helps their case that previous explanationsbad mothering, bad geneshave proven deficient to varying degrees. But Torrey and Yolken have also uncovered some hard evidence to support their claims, and they are about to put their theory to the test with clinical trials of drugs that are new to the psychopharmacological arsenal: antibiotics and antivirals similar to those used by AIDS patients. If the duo finds that such drugs alter the course of schizophrenia, Yolken observes, their results "would represent a major advance in the treatment of this devastating disease as well as in understanding its basic etiology." "SCHIZOPHRENIA is a cruel disease," Torrey has written, with considerable understatement. Although it affects only 1 percent of the population, schizophrenia is among the most debilitating forms of mental illness. Trapped in a world of private delusions, a schizophrenic might cling, for example, to the belief that he is Jesus Christ, or that the government has implanted a monitoring device in his mouth during a routine dental procedure. Visual and auditory hallucinations can range from the terrifying to the merely strange: gigantic spiders, voices that insult or instruct. Some schizophrenics withdraw, becoming mute or catatonic; others remain communicative but incoherent, jumping from one topic to another without logical connections. With little or no warning, schizophrenia usually manifests itself in patients between the ages of sixteen and thirty. From then on, the illness waxes and wanes, with symptoms generally becoming less severe as the patient ages. Psychotherapy is of little help to schizophrenics, but medication and constant medical care enable over 50 percent to make a full recovery. Still, relapses are common, and many patients spend their lives in halfway houses and institutions. Approximately 40 percent of schizophrenics don't get the help they need and end up on the streets or in prisonsor committing suicide. There has never been a consensus on schizophrenia's etiology or cause. Many nineteenth-century psychiatrists thought it was a biological disorder; some speculated that it might have an infectious origin. As far back as 1845, the French neurologist Jean E. Esquirol wrote that "mental alienation is epidemic." He added: "It is certain that there are years when...insanity seems suddenly to extend to a great number of individuals." In 1874, the American Journal of Insanity published a lengthy brief titled "On the Germ-Theory of Disease." By the early twentieth century, doctors like Eugen Bleuler had suggested that "the connection of [schizophrenia] to infectious process equally needs further study." An outbreak of psychoses after the 1918 influenza epidemic and the discovery that syphilis could cause dementia lent further credence to such theories. In 1922, the psychiatrist Karl Menninger hypothesized that schizophrenia was "in most instances" the by-product of viral encephalitis. Menninger later became a prominent Freudian psychoanalyst, following a career trajectory that mirrored a larger movement in American psychiatry away from biological explanations of mental illness. By the 1950s, Freudian thought had solidified its grip on the American psychiatric profession. That also
