Like, if you take Biopsych 101 you learn two things (1) drug use is often a form of self-medication for an underlying neurochemical imbalance or "disorder", and (2) alcohol increases GABA-mediated neural responses. Why is AUD the most common co-occuring disorder in people with schizophrenia? It's not because of the dopamine-increasing properties of ( Read more... )

I just Googled "GABA schizophrenia" after a bunch of inductive, intuitive thinking I've been doing on the subject over the past few weeks  suddenly came to a culmination (light bulb moment). I arrived at this hypothesis in an "unscientific" way, and I "proved" it in my mind in a "unscientific" way. The light bulb was bright enough to constitute a " ( Read more... )