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Another biomarker found which should lead to better quicker diagnosis. Mediation helps build up hippocampal part of the brain.

Hippocampal Volume Is Reduced in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder But Not in Psychotic Bipolar I Disorder
http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjour ... bul.sbu009

This study examined hippocampal volume as a putative biomarker for psychotic illness in the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) psychosis sample, contrasting manual tracing and semiautomated (FreeSurfer) region-of-interest outcomes.

When I saw this I thought "Wait there are four subtypes of schizophrenia... which are they talking about?"

Then I looked up some work on the definition, specifically with respect to the DSM-V definition. I found a review paper on the notion and found this

"More studies since 1994 have called into question the continued utilization of
the classic subtypes of schizophrenia. Similar to findings of prior studies
(Carpenter et al., 1973; Strauss et al., 1973; Carpenter and Stephens,1979),
cluster analytic and other approaches to identify taxonic
schizophrenia subtypes consistently fail to identify the DSM-IV subtypes
(Lykouras et al., 2001; Helmes and L
andmark, 2003; Peralta and Cuesta,
2003; Picardi et al., 2012).

A review of 24 publications describing 38 analyses of 28 participant cohorts found no support for classic schizophrenia subtypes (Linscott et al., 2010)."

The paper is

Review
Definition and description of schizophrenia in the DSM-5

From the journal "Schizophrenia Research", published in may of 2013

Dear Hippocampal--

This kind of research is a dead end, as far as I can tell.

Better to find ways to eliminate causes of suffering than label or diagnose.

Check: madinamerica.com

And see my article:
15 Truths About Schizophrenia Many People May Not Know
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/commun ... -know.html