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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b as well as psychosis associated with Parkinson's disease treatment.

ACP-103 is also being tested for the treatment of ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b that's not Parkinson's-related.

It essentially does the same thing: brings down and normalizes dopamine levels in the brain to reduce hallucinations and so forth.

Another drug developed by the company - ACP-104 - is also being tested in the treatment of psychotic episodes associated with ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b.

Major players in the ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b market - Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) - are all enormous companies; they represent some of the top ten pharma companies worldwide.

So, if you take, for example, JNJ's ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b drug Risperdal, that company might decide to make ACP-103 a potential add-on treatment and either become partners with ACADIA or simply buy the company outright.

Which would be more likely in a case like this - licensing a particular drug or buying the whole company?

It's interesting.

The more a company like ACADIA stays under the radar with its data remaining good, the better the chance of a straight buy-out.

The more people discover this company's potential and the stock rises, the less of a chance for a buy-out.

Right now, a major pharmaceutical company could definitely buy ACADIA for under a billion dollars.

But three, four months down the road if the company's market cap goes up significantly, and suddenly a major player has to fork over $2 billion for it, they may not ...

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b, was presented by his lawyers."There is no reason at all why I should not be able to represent myself in this trial," he said.

"If I had a mental disorder, then Rosa Parks had a mental disorder, because she didn't get up off that seat."Muhammad stood throughout the two-hour hearing and spoke frequently, often sparring with his attorneys.

At one point, he asked Ryan for permission to sit with the prosecutors because they agreed with him that he is competent.

The judge ignored his request.In agreeing that Muhammad could act as his own attorney, Ryan stressed that Muhammad was making a bad decision because he has no legal training and little legal experience.After the hearing, Muhammad's attorneys said they were disappointed in the judge's decision and that Ryan refused to hold a full hearing with witnesses."We feel we didn't get a chance to present and document evidence of a serious mental illness," said defense attorney Paul DeWolfe.

"He is very ill, he is mentally ill."He predicted that the trial will go badly for Muhammad.The judge appointed DeWolfe and another lawyer as standby attorneys for Muhammad, placing them in an advisory role in which Muhammad can ask them questions about the law and assist him with making legal filings.

DeWolfe said the appointment was contingent on the approval of the state public defender's office about whether such a role would be appropriate.Muhammad briefly represented himself during his trial in Virginia, delivering an opening s...

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NOVEL ABOUT SEVERE SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER PST Pacific Standard Time 3/30/2006 5:02 AM GMT (TransWorldNews) Greg Bauder's second novel, SELENE'S GUIDING LIGHT, deals with a new psychiatric diagnosis, Schizoaffective Disorder.

It is a dual diagnosis with Paranoid -ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and Manic-Depression occurring simultaneously.

In the novel, Bauder's main character, Don, is hospitalized having lost almost total control of reality.

He hears the voice of The Moon-Goddess, Selene, and undergoes a bizarre journey in his fantasy world which involves time-travel, shape-shifting, aliens, grandiose missions, terrifying ordeals and mysticism.

When Don is brought back to reality he hangs on by the barest thread to it.

He wanders the streets confused by the people who look like the beings on his fantasy planet, The New Earth.

But, he climbs out of his clinical depression and once again retreats into the...