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Robert Kolker Quote: “One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease.”

51. “One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “It’s the way of scientific progress – if you aren’t among the rare few who are immortalized, you are merely part of the great procession of research, a player in a larger drama.”

52. “It’s the way of scientific progress – if you aren’t among the rare few who are immortalized, you are merely part of the great procession of research, a player in a larger drama.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “What would progress look like for schizophrenia? If the Galvin boys had been born a half century later or more – growing up today, let’s say, and not in the 1950s or 1960s – would their treatment be any different now? In some respects, little has changed. The market for new schizophrenia drugs remains sluggish.”

53. “What would progress look like for schizophrenia? If the Galvin boys had been born a half century later or more – growing up today, let’s say, and not in the 1950s or 1960s – would their treatment be any different now? In some respects, little has changed. The market for new schizophrenia drugs remains sluggish.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “One meta-analysis, published in 2013, found that 7.2 percent of the general population has experienced hallucinations or delusions; another study in 2015 put the figure at 5.8 percent. A third of the people counted in the latter study only had one episode, while others had more persistent symptoms.”

54. “One meta-analysis, published in 2013, found that 7.2 percent of the general population has experienced hallucinations or delusions; another study in 2015 put the figure at 5.8 percent. A third of the people counted in the latter study only had one episode, while others had more persistent symptoms.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “That story is about children, now grown, investigating the mysteries of their own childhood – reconstituting the fragments of their parents’ dream, and shaping it into something new. It is about rediscovering the humanity in their own brothers, people who most of the world had decided were all but worthless. It is about, even after the worst has happened in virtually every imaginable way, finding a new way to understand what it means to be a family.”

55. “That story is about children, now grown, investigating the mysteries of their own childhood – reconstituting the fragments of their parents’ dream, and shaping it into something new. It is about rediscovering the humanity in their own brothers, people who most of the world had decided were all but worthless. It is about, even after the worst has happened in virtually every imaginable way, finding a new way to understand what it means to be a family.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “Without the inhibitory interneurons, we would end up processing the same information all over again – wasting time and effort, grinding our gears, becoming disoriented and, perhaps, anxious and paranoid and even delusional.”

56. “Without the inhibitory interneurons, we would end up processing the same information all over again – wasting time and effort, grinding our gears, becoming disoriented and, perhaps, anxious and paranoid and even delusional.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “Sherry Leonard, Gary O. Zerbe, and Robert Freedman, “Perinatal Phosphatidylcholine.”

57. “Sherry Leonard, Gary O. Zerbe, and Robert Freedman, “Perinatal Phosphatidylcholine.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “Making Donald the brunt of their jokes gave them a sense of power over a situation they had no explanation for – and reassured them that whatever Donald was, he was not them.”

58. “Making Donald the brunt of their jokes gave them a sense of power over a situation they had no explanation for – and reassured them that whatever Donald was, he was not them.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “She still felt like the youngest – like everything the family went through flowed down to her. Part.”

59. “She still felt like the youngest – like everything the family went through flowed down to her. Part.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “I could just act like I’m a multimillionaire like my brother Richard. Or I could move to Boise like John, or I could play classical guitar all day like Michael. It’s, like, we all just do. Just respecting that about each other. We all survived somehow. Everyone’s different way needs to be okay.”

60. “I could just act like I’m a multimillionaire like my brother Richard. Or I could move to Boise like John, or I could play classical guitar all day like Michael. It’s, like, we all just do. Just respecting that about each other. We all survived somehow. Everyone’s different way needs to be okay.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “Beauty surrounded Mimi, even if she was in no mood to see it.”

61. “Beauty surrounded Mimi, even if she was in no mood to see it.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “In Silvern’s experience, it was sometimes a matter of luck that a person has the right temperament to absorb trauma in a way that still allows them to be open to new experiences, to go through life with armor.”

62. “In Silvern’s experience, it was sometimes a matter of luck that a person has the right temperament to absorb trauma in a way that still allows them to be open to new experiences, to go through life with armor.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “Schizophrenia’s inaccessibility may be the most destructive thing about it – the thing that keeps so many people from connecting to the people with the illness.”

63. “Schizophrenia’s inaccessibility may be the most destructive thing about it – the thing that keeps so many people from connecting to the people with the illness.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “How could it be, she’d wonder, that Jim was still an important, even respected, member of the family, while she was the one who had been sent away?”

64. “How could it be, she’d wonder, that Jim was still an important, even respected, member of the family, while she was the one who had been sent away?”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “In 1979, Wyatt’s team published research showing that people with schizophrenia had more cerebrospinal fluid in their brain ventricles – the network of gaps in the tissue of the brain’s limbic system, where the amygdala and hippocampus are located.”

65. “In 1979, Wyatt’s team published research showing that people with schizophrenia had more cerebrospinal fluid in their brain ventricles – the network of gaps in the tissue of the brain’s limbic system, where the amygdala and hippocampus are located.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “And so I was crushed,” Mimi said. “Because I thought I was such a good mother. I baked a cake and a pie every night. Or at least had Jell-O with whipped cream.”

66. “And so I was crushed,” Mimi said. “Because I thought I was such a good mother. I baked a cake and a pie every night. Or at least had Jell-O with whipped cream.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “Something was bothering Mimi – and it had to do with her daughters. She knew that in their eyes, she was both the villain and hero of the family: a mother in denial, heartlessly neglecting her daughters because she was so attached to her sick sons, and a mother who kept her family together, left to care for so many sick sons by herself. Mimi sensed she was being judged.”

67. “Something was bothering Mimi – and it had to do with her daughters. She knew that in their eyes, she was both the villain and hero of the family: a mother in denial, heartlessly neglecting her daughters because she was so attached to her sick sons, and a mother who kept her family together, left to care for so many sick sons by herself. Mimi sensed she was being judged.”

— Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker Quote: “So far, she has learned that the key to understanding schizophrenia is that, despite a century of research, such a key remains elusive.”

68. “So far, she has learned that the key to understanding schizophrenia is that, despite a century of research, such a key remains elusive.”

— Robert Kolker

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