What happens when a person with psychosis loses touch with reality, experiencing the equivalent of cognitive “heart attack”? Is there a way to measure factors that might spur such occurrences so that we can take steps to prevent them, much as we do with cholesterol level and blood pressure for the heart?
Daniel Barron, a resident psychiatrist at Yale and writer for Scientific American, answers these questions and more here
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當一個思覺失調患者出現脫離現實的妄想時，他的認知功能所經歷的衝擊猶如一次“突發性心臟病”，過中究竟出了什麽問題呢？就如可以通過量度膽固醇水平及血壓，以預防心臟病一樣，我們可以通過量度某些因素，一些足以誘使病發的因素，從而採取預防措施嗎？
耶魯大學駐校精神病學家及《科學人》作家丹尼爾．巴隆（Daniel Barron）在以下網站回答了以上的問題：https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-we-measure-delusions/
