Sunday, March 29, 2015

A Complication for the Newest Breakthrough in Schizophrenia Treatment

Scott Alexander writes:
The newest breakthrough in ensuring schizophrenic people take their medication (a hard problem!) is bundling the pills with an ingestable computer chip that transmits data from the patient’s stomach. It’s a bold plan, somewhat complicated by the fact that one of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia is the paranoid fear that somebody has implanted a chip in your body to monitor you. 

3 comments:

  1. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really after you.

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    1. Just because they aren't out to get you doesn't mean they won't.

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  2. This story broke some time ago

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+onion+schizophrenics

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