Word: schizophrenias
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Kety's work helped reveal a link between mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and manic depression with chemical imbalances in the brain, the foundation said. It also indicated that the tendency towards these disorders may be hereditary...
...Even worse than the camps are the prison psychiatric institutions. Dissenters are regularly dispatched to these asylums without trial, for indefinite periods and with no possibility of appeal. A typical case is that of Leonid Plyushch, a cyberneticist whose aspirations for Ukranian cultural freedom led to charges of "creeping schizophrenia." He has been given massive doses of depressant drugs. After two years in one of the U.S.S.R.'s seven police-run lunatic asylums, the noted scientist has been driven to a state of mental and physical collapse...
...schizophrenia of the city was such that the main headline of a newspaper one day read THE WORST is OVER, while a story on the same page warned that "security deteriorates further...
...married to a member of Bonaccorsisi's staff. Other, lesser men may thirst for a glimpse of the world out side, but the asylum is sufficient for the doctor, who spends his time between rounds and beddings in the laboratory trying to isolate "the germ of schizophrenia." It is clear he has been inside the walls too long...
...creating a "neosocialist" system in which "public interest" would justify even more Government interference. Yet to Lodge, that smacks of hypocrisy. Business and political leaders have fallen short, he argues, by singing hymns to the old ideology while practicing parts of the new. This has resulted in an "ideological schizophrenia" that blocks solutions to such critical problems as the inequitable distribution of wealth and undermines the legitimacy of corporations. His solution: bring business and Government into a more harmonious relationship by federally chartering the 2,000 largest companies, then enfranchising them to fill community needs. Under this scheme, for example...