NARSAD: It's Worse Than Even WE Thought

When you were a little kid did you ever try fishing a stuck piece of toast out of the toaster, with a knife, ..... without first unplugging the toaster?

The preening self obsession staring back at us from NARSAD's 2007 Annual Report we mistakenly interpreted as simple parity with the Rest of Psychiatry's Bio-$cience. We were wrong. We had to read it a few more times shuddering in bewilderment: kind of like stepping back from that toaster wondering Why we hadn't unplugged it, from It's juice,..... first.

"In 2007, nearly 60 million American adults — about one person in four — suffered from a diagnosable mental illness. Children were greatly affected, too, with one in 10 impaired by a mental disorder. "

240 Million Adults/60 Million Adults Does = 1 in Every 4 Adults


Who does NARSAD grant their 1 in 4 $ Millions to, and What do they do with the money?

pg 11: Staglin family Music Festival NARSAD Schizophrenia Research Award

"This three-year $250,000 grant, earmarked for an outstanding early-career scientist whose research is uncovering the causes of schizophrenia and leading to improved treatments, was awarded in 2007 to Akira Sawa, MD., PhD, of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sawa, who previously received a Young Investigator grant in 2004, is generating a powerful mouse model for the study of schizophrenia using a technique called in utero gene transfer."

Pg 19: First Mouse Models of Schizophrenia

"A team led by 2004 Young Investigator and 2007 Staglin Award recipient Akira Sawa, M.D., Ph.D.,of Johns Hopkins University, genetically engineered a mouse that models anatomical and behavioral defects of schizophrenia. Dr. Sawa’s progress (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) dovetailed with that reported several months earlier (Neuron) by 2006 Distinguished Investigator John C. Roder, Ph.D.,of the University of Toronto, Canada, who developed two strains of mice with different mutations in DISC1, a known risk gene for schizophrenia. One strain exhibited behavioral abnormalities and memory deficiencies resembling symptoms of human schizophrenia; the other exhibited symptoms associated with depression."

Are they going to Fix that mouse/You and Your kid by Fixing Your known risk genes? Or perhaps breeding Non risk genes Into the pool would be easier.

1 in 10 Oppositional Defiant, Or Critical Thinker?



Until then we'll just have to keep Diagnosing and Chemically Bashing those risky genes right out of the pool, ..... Right? Gee Whiz, ...... We've never even Tried That one before.

But don't worry. NARSAD doesn't equate You and Your kids with Schizophrenic and Depressed rodents. They're only Investigating your 1 in 4 'Not Otherwise Specified' neighbor, and His 1 in 10 kids. And all this COMPLETELY UNRELATED Symptom Bashing, Chemical Lobotomy, Brain Salad Surgery, ..... is being taken care of by our Courts, ..... Right?

Judge Throws Out Rico Action

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Pg 2: "NARSAD is the world’s leading charity dedicated to mental health research. Our mission: to alleviate the immense suffering caused by mental illness."

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Charges Dropped In Overdose Death

1 in Every 4 Adults, and 1 in Every 10 kids

"We are NARSAD. Resistance is futile. You Will be assimilated."

Unfortunately it's going to take more than Patrick Stewart in Star Fleet pajamas ordering a full spread of Photon Torpedoes to unplug This all too real Chem Cube, 1 in 4 Brain Toaster.