Schizophrenia Recreated in a Computer
How does schizophrenia develop in the brain? What happens? Dr. Ralph Hoffman creates "hyperlearning" in computers, which then recalled stories as a schizophrenic patient might.
"Reporting in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers write of modeling schizophrenia in a computerized simulation of the brain's connections, called a "neural network." Yale psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Hoffman, an author on the paper, discusses what his team has learned from the model."
Why? To learn. If we'd never gone into space we'd never have the global networks we enjoy now. To my mind - and for the 1 in every 100 people who are diagnosed with schizophrenia - the more we learn, the better.
Research is vital to understanding - and to eventually finding a cure. We'll get every dollar spent on research back tenfold if those with mental illness can truly recover.
