What Is Schizophrenia? | Taking A Closer Look At Psychotic Disorders
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we sit down with Joe Pierre, M.D., a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF, and the Unit Chief of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital Adult Inpatient Unit.
He has considerable experience working with individuals that suffer from psychotic disorders, substance abuse issues, and those with "dual diagnosis". He is also a primary contributor to clinical trials in schizophrenia and early intervention for young persons at high risk for psychosis.
Joe is both intrigued and challenged by schizophrenia – and he is on a mission to better understand it so that those suffering from it can live more comfortably…
Join in now to uncover:
- The types of symptoms that are associated with schizophrenia.
- How schizophrenia changes the essential part of who you are.
- Why schizophrenia can onset at certain ages.
- Medications that can be used to mitigate the challenges of schizophrenia.
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Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | what is schizophrenia? There have certainly been many different people who have tried to put that |
| 0:05.8 | into words and define it through the years. In modern times, we often refer to the DSM, the DSM |
| 0:12.2 | 5, and we talk about different symptoms of schizophrenia as a sort of way to explain to people what |
| 0:18.4 | that is. So the types of symptoms that we see in schizophrenia fall under a umbrella of psychosis |
| 0:24.9 | or psychotic symptoms, those include things like hallucinations. |
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| 1:01.8 | The Little This is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. I guess today ends |
| 1:11.2 | jump here. Indeed, it's in the unit achieved part of the adult intonation psychiatry |
| 1:17.1 | service. I have the Langley Porter Psychiatric Possible and Clinics. This is all part of |
| 1:21.1 | the University of California UCSF. So Joe, thanks for coming. How you doing? |
| 1:25.2 | I'm doing good. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:26.8 | If you want to tell me about your background and what kind of specifically you're working on today, |
| 1:31.2 | in terms of mental health and psychiatrics. Sure. So I guess started my career as an undergraduate, |
| 1:37.6 | majoring in biology and neuroscience. I've always had it interest in how the brain works and |
| 1:43.0 | that sort of thing. But when I was in college, I was less interested in venture research and |
| 1:49.1 | in biology. It's a lot of pipetting back and forth all day long. I really was more interested |
| 1:55.3 | in working with people and decided, well, sort of deliberated between going to graduate |
| 2:01.6 | school and psychology or going to medical school for psychiatry. I ended up picking the latter |
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