Nicotine Normalizes Brain Activity Deficits That Are Key to Schizophrenia
<i>“This defines a completely novel strategy for medication development,” says lead author</i><p>As someone with schizoaffective problems and raging ADHD, I find quotes like this acutely annoying. I've <i>told</i> every psychiatrist I'eve ever dealt with about the experiential costs/benefits of smoking (and consuming various other recreational drugs). They all nod sagely and say things like 'but smoking is bad' (no shit Sherlock!) while making absolutely zero effort to measure or help me track any of this. Every mentally ill person I've known has said much the same thing. Of all the medical professionals I've ever dealt with, psychiatrists are the laziest and least imaginative.<p>Edited to add that I quit tobacco ~7 years ago using chantix, which I <i>totally</i> recommend. Unfortunately my mental ilnesses have become harder to deal with over the same period. The last time I reached out to my psychiatrist he said he hadn't seen me in so long that he didn't have room in his practice for me any more. What an asshole.