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Azacyclonol (brand name: Frenquel) is "an exasperating in-and-outer" because different researchers get conflicting results, says Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing (TIME, Dec. 19). From 49% to 54% of state-hospital patients show good response, says Dr. John T. Ferguson of Traverse City, Mich. He finds Frenquel less potent than the two former drugs in quelling disturbed, overactive behavior, but more effective in squelching a patient's delusions...
Doxylamine, used since 1948 as an anti-histaminic under the name Decapryn, is proving remarkable for eliminating unpredictable outbursts of unruly behavior by normally docile patients, reports Michigan's Dr. Ferguson. Like Frenquel, it also reduces delusions and hallucinations, gives a boost to patients who have developed resistance after some improvement on other drugs...
...psychiatric research. Psychiatrists may still puzzle over the nature and cause of schizophrenia, but at last they can turn on and off, at will, psychotic episodes which have most of the earmarks of natural mental illness. (For the turning off, psychiatrists use peace-of-mind drugs, e.g., chlorpromazine and Frenquel, and can snap a patient out of an artificial psychosis within minutes.) On a Revolving Cloud. Among a dozen U.S. medical teams researching LSD, one is headed by Dr. Fabing at Cincinnati's Christ Hospital. It takes, he found, only about one seven-hundred-millionth of a healthy young...
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