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...come up with a whole new pharmacopoeia of compounds to deal with mental disorders. "Today the psychiatrists who treat patients are working hand in hand with the 'wet-brain guys'--the pharmacologists, chemists and molecular biologists," says Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. While the effects of earlier psychiatric drugs were discovered largely by trial and error, the latest compounds are aimed at exact targets in the brain. "When you wanted to develop a new drug, you used to copy an old one that worked, add a little twist...
...Henry Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College has won a total of $1 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to compile studies relating to African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans and Latinos...
...development of the new atypicalanti-psychotic medications has allowed the NIMH toencourage the parents of young patients to enrolltheir children in the study, she said...
Case histories for over 600 patients werereviewed at NIMH sites around the country,Rapoport said. One hundred and thirteen candidateswere selected for in-depth interviews; 30 werefound to suffer from the early onset ofschizophrenia...
These findings, she said, have led Rapoport andher NIMH team to focus on the brain development ofthose with early onsets of schizophrenia to seewhether delayed development works to compoundtheir condition