Word: schizophrenias
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...studying neurochemicals, scientists may eventually understand the processes behind such diverse mental phenomena as memory, the placebo effect and acupuncture, Dowling said. He said such work might eventually lead to treatments for Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia...
...when New York City Mayor Edward Koch ordered social workers to begin rounding up the homeless mentally ill last month, Brown was the first person picked up and forcibly committed to Bellevue Hospital. The diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia. Brown, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, contested her "incarceration." Last week she won the first round in what promises to be a landmark court battle over the rights of the homeless, many of whom suffer from psychiatric disorders...
...puts artificial reproduction and genetics at the top of his list of emerging concerns. The possibility of selecting a child's sex, he contends, has "profound social implications." Advances in genetic screening that identifies whether the unborn individual will be subject to heart disease or cancer or schizophrenia raise a new round of issues. Would altering the defective genes in utero be ethically permissible, given the risk of unforeseen results for future generations? The moral dilemmas spawned by the high-tech world of biomedicine -- closer to salvation or Pandora's box? -- are sufficient to keep Callahan and his Hastings associates...
...CHARACTERS of Weeds add to the general schizophrenia. Lee's benefactor and later his lover, Lillian, is presumably a serious proponent of Lee's talent. The first time we see her, however, the main focus is her exposed cleavage which jiggles while she applauds. When Lillian discovers that Umstetter has lifted his masterpiece from Jean Genet's Deathwatch, she couldn't care less. After all, she's the food and drama critic. The screenwriters make her a middle-aged Barbie Doll, and raise the role above its flimsiness...
...willing, if I still have the strength, and, of course, if they are still alive -- I must find my wife and children and I must kill them." In the parables that follow this shocking statement, a former circus strongman discovers his family murdered by London toughs, a case of schizophrenia mirrors a fractured universe, a dragon-size dog ritually feeds on the residents of a small village, and in the year 2020, time becomes a fatal disease. A recurrent theme is that the world has lost its grip, "has been to so many parties, been in so many fights, lost...