Schizophrenia, the Long View Questions You Should Ask Your 34th Psychiatric Consultation William R. Yee M.D., J.D., Copyright Applied for July 8th, 2022

By William Yee

This book shares my 50 years of experience practicing emergency room medicine, general medicine, and psychiatry in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, California, and Texas since 1972. I have been the Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry in a Community Hospital, Medical Director of a four county and five county mental Health Center in Indian from 1984 to 1986 and 1991 to 2001. I have practiced psychiatry in Regional Medical Centers, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center in Hazard Kentucky, I have practice psychiatry in Michigan Prisons including Riverside Psychiatric Hospital in Ionia Michigan: Bellamy Creek Prison in Ionia Michigan: I-Max prison in Ionia Michigan; Brooks Prison in Muskegon, Michigan; Pelican Bay Prison in Crescent City, California; CSP-Sac prison in Folsom, California; San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, Calfornia. I hvae worked in Forensic Psychiatric hospitals including Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan; Patton State Hospital in Patton, California; and Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, California. I have testifed as an psychatric expert witness in probate court, civil, and criminal trials in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and California. I have worked at Fort Hood, Texas with active military suffering from PTSD, closed head injuries and other stress related mental illnesses. I have worked in private practic clinics as well as the numerous public agencies listed above. I share my experience with the general public to assist in understanding what psychiatry can and can not do. I am here to do no harm, and to help if I can.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387483648

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Schizophrenia, the Long View

Questions You Should Ask

Your 34th Psychiatric Consultation

William R. Yee M.D., J.D.,

Copyright Applied for July 8th, 2022

The First Question you should ask is, What is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a disorder of:

1. thought,

2. emotion, and

3. behavior that

4. interferes with all the activities of daily

living.

The brain is a collection of billions of neurons and glial cells with trillions of synapses. The location of the abnormalities causing schizophrenia is not known with certainty.

The Second Question you should ask is, What causes Schizophrenia?

There are many causes of schizophrenia. Any injury to the brain during gestation, delivery, development, and maturation to senescent deterioration may cause abnormalities that can be diagnosed as schizophrenia.

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Currently there is much research into pruning of the brain that occurs during late adolescence and early adulthood.

The cause of schizophrenia

1. is not known

2. because what schizophrenia is,

3. is also not known.

Speculation includes, but is not limited to, the following risk factors for schizophrenia

1. immunological processes,

2. regenerative processes,

3. dampening inflammatory activation,

4. angiogenesis,

5. apoptotic cell removal,

6. wound healing,

7. stem cell mobilization.

8. central nervous system complement factors

9.  synaptic pruning