Psychiatrist Alexander 'Sasha' Bardey said he reviewed Jordan Neely’s medical records.
A psychiatric expert testifying in Daniel Penny’s defense said Jordan Neely had one of the most severe histories of paranoid schizophrenia he has ever reviewed.
On Tuesday, Bardey told jurors about some of the patterns he observed as he read through Neely’s medical records, which he said show Neely was diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, a mental health condition with similar symptoms to schizophrenia that also affects a patient’s moods. He said Neely’s symptoms were exacerbated by his regular use of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, which he said can sometimes cause patients to become psychotic.
Bardey said patients with schizophrenia also sometimes self-medicate with K2 or other drugs instead of taking their prescribed medication. In one note from a 2020 visit to Bellevue Hospital, a doctor wrote that Neely refused to take his medication and said “he did not need it.” Penny’s defense attorneys have suggested at trial that Neely’s schizophrenia and use of K2 could have contributed to his death — theories that the medical examiner refuted. But on Tuesday Attorney Thomas Kenniff asked Bardey more specifically about how Neely’s schizophrenia and drug use could have affected his behavior on the subway before Penny put him in a chokehold, citing the statements of several witnesses.
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