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...Lichtenstein, a former producer for the ABC-TV show 20/20. His choice of subject matter had personal meaning: he came down with manic-depressive disease in 1986 and spent four years "struggling with the illness to get it under control medically." After getting better -- Lichtenstein is on the drug Tegretol -- he founded Lichtenstein Creative Media in New York City. Fittingly, his first project was a 1992 Voices program for NPR on manic depression. It was narrated by Patty Duke, who also suffered from the disease. Jason Robards offered to narrate the current schizophrenia program, volunteering that his first wife...
...prey. Generalized anxiety can be treated with surprising success with benzodiazepines like Valium, as well as with a new drug called BuSpar (buspirone). Manic depression was effectively treated with lithium long before anyone knew why it worked; now therapy is being fine-tuned with medications like the anticonvulsant Tegretol (carbamazepine) and drugs that ameliorate lithium's side effects. Debilitating panic attacks can be prevented with both antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Hyperactivity, addictive disorders, phobias, sleep disturbances, even dementia -- all are succumbing to the new science of the brain...
Fewer Operations. At Columbia's famed Neurological Institute, Dr. Amols gave carbamazepine (already marketed in Europe as Tegretol by Geigy Pharmaceuticals) to 97 patients, aged 29 to 89, whose illnesses had lasted from three weeks to 50 years (average: ten years). Many had already had operations of various kinds. No fewer than 41 patients enjoyed relief of pain within a few hours, and many got along on three or four tablets a day. Others needed increased doses. In all, 73 patients benefited greatly from carbamazepine alone; four more improved when a modest dose of Dilantin was added...