Schizophrenia

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b.Natalya, 19, quoted by Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, said she had been standing close to the tracks when she noticed a man running towards her.

At first she thought it was someone she knew, but then she felt a push and found herself on the tracks.She managed to survive by getting into the space between the rails as the train moved forward.

Natalya had no injuries except for a bruise on her hand.The 20-year-old man was detained immediately.

His first idea had been to commit suicide, the paper wrote.

But later he reportedly heard a voice telling him to kill someone else.It turned out that in 1998, the man had been detained after a fight in the metro (although that time no one fell onto the tracks).

In 2003, he was in hospital with a ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b diagnosis.After that however, doctors from the mental clinic did not monitor the man for three years.

Neither did they tell his relatives not to let him out alone.In July 2000, a mentally ill woman pushed another woman under a metro train in Moscow.

The victim died of her injuries.

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) "- an alcoholic, bigot of a mother -" (clack!

) "- and give him a teenage son with a strange name who is wise beyond his years." (Clack!

) "Oh, we need comic relief - tragicomic.

How about a rich, tubby best friend with a gigantic substance-abuse problem?

" (Clack!

) Following a great deal of whirring and hissing, out popped Huff (Hank Azaria) a middle-age psychiatrist, who has neglected his wife Beth (Paget Brewster) for his work.

The good doctor talks to an imaginary figure called the Homeless Hungarian (Jack Laufer), who is either a manifestation of his conscience or proof that he's losing his mind.

Beyond this, Huff's son Byrd (Anton Yelchin) is the voice of reason, always there to put his family's hysteria into perspective.

Huff's brother Teddy (Andy Comeau) has been institutionalized, and is the one to whom Huff opens up, which works best when Teddy's catatonic.

The fascinating roles belong to Huff's peripheral co-stars.

Oliver Platt, who plays his downward-spiraling best friend, Russell, and Blythe Danner, Huff's drunk, imperious mother, Izzy, offer scene-swiping performances that are enough to hold your attention.

The two got in bed at the end of season one, and all hell broke loose.

Huff pushed Russ down a flight of stairs, and Teddy jumped into his brother's luxury car and drove off to parts previously unknown.

As the second season opens, Huff sets out after Teddy, and Beth is less enamored of her husband than ever.

She's trying to dea...

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But a University of Southern California (USC) review of published research questions that long-standing practice.John Bola, Ph.D., an assistant professor in USC's School of Social Work, re-examined six studies dating from the 1950s to today that concluded that not medicating early-episode ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b patients results in long-term harm.

Holding the studies up to modern-day research standards - using "meta-analysis with randomized controlled trials" - Bola found they didn't yield "good-quality evidence." "When you do that, the results are a wash," he said.

"It's a null finding."The assumption that not giving medication resulted in long-term harm brought an ethical prohibition against research to examine how early-episode schizophrenics might improve without medication.

Bola hopes his findings open the door to such research and, in doing so, improve accuracy of ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b diagnosis while sparing patients who don't need antipsychotic drugs from serious side effects.

On the other hand, Herbert Meltzer, M.D., a psychiatry professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., argued that the long-term harm of non-medication cannot be ignored."Medication has been seen as having two purposes - preventing a relapse of the psychotic episode and preventing deterioration of cognition," Meltzer said.

"Also, medication hopefully improves cognition to some extent.

Very few would subscribe to the idea that people would not ha...