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To: NeuroInvestment who wrote (17116)	6/17/2005 6:26:25 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 52153

LOL, bad joke but made me laugh. I did get to look at an alzheimer's brain and a tourette's brain. It was completely awe inspiring and terrifying. I just think it's easier for the doctor, for whom the side effects are words on a paper, than the patient, for whom they are realities in an already tragic situation. On the other hand, your profession is not an easy one either. Still, I wonder if you looked one of them straight in the eyes with deep compassion for their struggle and acknowledged their fear as legit, whether they might come round.

To: NeuroInvestment who wrote (17116)	6/17/2005 6:30:49 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52153

P.S. I know its off topic but why do the drugs make bipolar or schiz. patients feel they have lost their personalities? There is a major (100,000) cohort study underway now tracking pregnant women through childbirth and the first 72 months of their baby's lives; hopefully more funding will allow it to go through teenage years. They're going to try to understand more about the triggers and genetic vulnerabilities associated with autism and schizophrenia. We already know that flu outbreaks (mother getting flu) are associated. But lots of viruses like that are linked. Their thinking is that the mother's cytokine response may permanently sensitize the developing brain, and then later triggers resensitize it and push it into mental illness. This could be a good line of research with eventual new options for treatment but a long way off.