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...mental illness within the last three years. This isn't a disqualification per se. In fact it may help. I suspect that the producers just want to ensure a full range of mental disturbance among the finalists rather than have say, two competitors with the identical strain of delusional schizophrenia...
...Samuel Barondes, a psychiatrist and medical historian at the University of California, San Francisco. No one really understood how the wonder pills worked. Nor were they always free of distressing side effects--such as the "Thorazine shuffle," the stumbling, zombie-like gait that often accompanies this treatment for schizophrenia...
...drug-dependent society. But with more than 50 million Americans suffering from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity, doctors in the clinical trenches felt they had no choice but to employ the best weapons at their disposal. Says Dr. Sophia Vinogradov, Barondes' UCSF colleague and a specialist in schizophrenia: "We now have a much more vigorous armamentarium for our patients...
...testing, including clinical trials, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. These include 26 drugs for depression, a disease that affects 19 million Americans each year and costs the country more than $23 billion in lost work days and decreased productivity. Other drugs in the pipeline target schizophrenia, anxiety phobias and various forms of senile dementia, most notably Alzheimer's. All told, drug companies are betting $6 billion a year on R. and D. in hopes of creating new blockbuster drugs like Eli Lilly's Prozac, whose patent expires...
...Consider schizophrenia, which strikes 1% to 2% of the world's population, including 3 million Americans, usually in their late teens or early 20s. Over the years, its harrowing symptoms--hallucinations, persistent voices, paranoia and frozen emotions--have been blamed on everything from witchcraft to the evil eye. Now scientists realize that schizophrenia is a complex syndrome resulting from the failure of various neurotransmitters--the chemical messengers that skip from one nerve cell to the next--including dopamine, serotonin and 5-hydroxytryptamine. "Certainly it's not caused by bad parenting," says Vinogradov. Knowing which neurotransmitters are implicated in the disease...