Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Early Alerts for Schizophrenia
When people are diagnosed with schizophrenia, it’s usually after they experience a psychotic break. But the disease starts before that -- maybe long before.
When people are diagnosed with schizophrenia, it’s usually after they experience a psychotic break. But the disease starts before that -- maybe long before. Now, there’s a promising new treatment that seeks to prevent a psychotic symptoms like hearing voices and delusional thinking, by identifying young people at risk of developing the disease and treating them preventatively.
The full episode
4 of 5- 0:00Race and Police Shootings
- 10:16If They Gunned Me Down
- 17:49Monkey Selfie
- 26:38Early Alerts for SchizophreniaYou’re reading this
- 39:50Hearing Voices in Different Cultures