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Volume 339:205-206 July 16, 1998 Number 3
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A Beautiful Mind

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By Sylvia Nasar. 459 pp., illustrated. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998. $25. ISBN 0-684-81906-6.

It is a common belief that once schizophrenia has bored its way deep into a person's mind, the losses are irretrievable. But over the past decade or so, many patients have had their lives greatly enhanced by the new antipsychotic medications; others, admittedly few, improve in midlife without any treatment whatsoever. One person who seems to have had a substantial midlife improvement is Professor John Nash, who was first brought to the general public's attention by Sylvia Nasar in a 1994 New York Times article. Not only was Nash improving after having been severely ill with paranoid schizophrenia for 30 . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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