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...from hating the sunshine in the mornings to loving it," says Daphne Moss, who after two years of treatment with clozapine is teaching public school part time and living independently. "In 15 years of practice, I've never seen anything like it," says Dr. Samuel Risch, a psychiatrist at Emory University in Atlanta...
...appearance sometime between the ages of 15 and 25, a period when the frontal lobes of the brain are rapidly maturing. Contrary to popular belief, the disorder has nothing to do with "split personality." The term schizophrenia (Greek for split mind) was coined in 1908 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler and refers to a splitting of the capacity for thought...
...first useful treatment for schizophrenia was discovered by accident. A French surgeon serving in Vietnam in the 1950s noticed that Thorazine, then administered as a sedative, quieted ravings and hallucinations among soldiers awaiting surgery. That prompted a Paris psychiatrist to try the drug on schizophrenics. Thorazine calmed patients and reduced their symptoms. It was quickly proclaimed a miracle drug. Thorazine and related drugs such as haloperidol, fluphenazine and thiothixene soon eclipsed the brutal treatments previously in vogue: lobotomy, primitive electroshock and artificially induced insulin shock. Over the next two decades, nearly half a million patients were discharged from state hospitals...
...drugs used to treat depression are effective against all these conditions and against panic attacks as well. Some researchers have therefore concluded that the diverse disorders may in fact be linked. "Depression may be only the tip of the iceberg of a family of dysfunctions," says James Hudson, a psychiatrist at Harvard...
...state medical board decides not tosuspend Dr. Margaret H. Bean-Bayog '65, a MedicalSchool psychiatrist accused of having an affairwith a patient who later committed suicide...