torekp comments on Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders - Less Wrong
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Do you have any evidence of brain damage in schizophrenia that isn't explainable by drug use (including antipsychotics especially) and is fairly common among schizophrenics?
Regarding arguing oneself out of delusion, cognitive therapy for schizophrenia has a decent track record. More info on request, after my wife gets home (she's a psychologist).
See for example http://www.schizophrenia.com/research/schiz.brain.htm on structural brain damage. For functional brain damage, read the above-linked paper by McKay where he starts talking about change in patterns of prediction error signal activation in the right prefrontal cortex.
Here's a better source (PDF), link-chained from yours.
On brain changes due to drug use:
So the answer to my question appears to be that drugs may or may not be doing some brain damage, but not nearly as much as the whole change seen in schizophrenia.