A recent study suggests that individuals with psychotic disorders process sensations they produce themselves, such as their own touch or heartbeat, differently from people without these conditions. This altered processing appears not only in the brain 🧠 but also at the level of the spinal cord 🦴.
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Altered sense of self in psychosis traced to the spinal cord
The brain typically filters out predictable, self-produced sensations like one's own touch. A study in Molecular Psychiatry provides evidence that this filtering is altered in psychosis.
Adolescent cannabis use linked to doubling risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders: study of 463,396 adolescents found that past-year cannabis use during adolescence was associated with a significantly higher risk of incident psychotic (doubled), bipolar (doubled), depressive and anxiety disorders.
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Public Health Institute
Study: Adolescent Cannabis Use Linked to Doubling Risk of Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders - Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA (February 20, 2026)—Adolescents who use cannabis could face a significantly higher risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders by young adulthood, according to a…