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Though living in two worlds-and sometimes mastering both-can be exhilarating, it can also be agonizing. A certain schizophrenia comes all too easily. "There is no consistency between my social life and my business life," complains Melvyn Huckaby, a Houston oral surgeon who lives among whites and works among blacks. "I'm on the front line all the time. It depresses me." The demands of middle-class life have produced some new strains. Says Thomas Freeman, director of continuing education at Texas Southern University: "All through high school and college I was told that blacks do not commit...
...victims frequently develop worsening symptoms, and sometimes permanent paralysis, over a period of several hours after the initial episode. It also suggests a way in which the damage that follows a stroke may be lessened. Drugs are now available to restore proper neurotransmitter balances in patients suffering from depression, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. Proper use of these drugs after a stroke might restore the balance in survivors and reverse some of the damage...
Keep Your Pantheon is a German-expressionist investigation into the theories of R.D. Laing, and the schizophrenia inherent in strivings for spiritual rebirth--"Changing the pantheon," as the somewhat clumsy translation has it. At the Hasty Pudding Club...
Died. Dr. Ralph Waldo Gerard, 73, a University of California neurophysiologist who challenged in the 1950s the Freudian theory that schizophrenia results from adverse cultural and psychological conditions and posited that faulty body chemistry was the probable cause; following heart surgery; in Newport Beach, Calif...
Another clue to schizophrenia, says Dr. Seymour Kety, chief of the psychiatric research laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, lies in the discovery of an enzyme in the brains of both animals and man that can convert normal brain chemicals like tryptamine to dimethyltryptamine, a well-known hallucinogen. Kety and other scientists speculate that in schizophrenics such a process may be out of control...