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Robert Kolker Quote: “If you’ve left town, like John, you can hold on to your truth. To come home is to run the risk of being contradicted. Even the people who leave, like John, can feel almost rejected.”

51. “If you’ve left town, like John, you can hold on to your truth. To come home is to run the risk of being contradicted. Even the people who leave, like John, can feel almost rejected.”

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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.”

52. “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.”

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Robert Kolker Quote: “She had served everyone else, she said, enumerating the great sacrifices she had made to do so.”

53. “She had served everyone else, she said, enumerating the great sacrifices she had made to do so.”

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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.”

54. “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.”

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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.”

55. “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.”

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Robert Kolker Quote: “Yet half of young school shooters have symptoms of developing schizophrenia.”

56. “Yet half of young school shooters have symptoms of developing schizophrenia.”

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Robert Kolker Quote: “Mimi was in charge, they both knew that. But even if what her father said went nowhere, it meant something to Mary that he said it. At least he spoke up, making the case for the well children over the sick ones.”

57. “Mimi was in charge, they both knew that. But even if what her father said went nowhere, it meant something to Mary that he said it. At least he spoke up, making the case for the well children over the sick ones.”

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Robert Kolker Quote: “What if the problem with schizophrenia patients wasn’t that they lacked the ability to respond to so much stimuli, but that they lacked the ability not to? What if their brains weren’t overloaded, but lacked inhibition – forced to reckon with everything that was coming their way, every second of every day?”

58. “What if the problem with schizophrenia patients wasn’t that they lacked the ability to respond to so much stimuli, but that they lacked the ability not to? What if their brains weren’t overloaded, but lacked inhibition – forced to reckon with everything that was coming their way, every second of every day?”

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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.”

59. “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.”

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Robert Kolker Quote: “New Beat Books, 2016. Kindle. Sullivan, Harry Stack, and Helen Swick Perry.”

60. “New Beat Books, 2016. Kindle. Sullivan, Harry Stack, and Helen Swick Perry.”

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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.”

61. “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.”

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$Robert Kolker Quote: “The normal brain learns from what it perceives. It doesn’t have to start from zero if it hears the same thing twice. People with schizophrenia, however, couldn’t manage that. In test after test, conducted at Freedman’s lab in Denver, their brains showed two waves of equal size for the two clicks. It was as if they had to react all over again to the second click – even though they had just heard the same click a fraction of a second earlier.”$

62. “The normal brain learns from what it perceives. It doesn’t have to start from zero if it hears the same thing twice. People with schizophrenia, however, couldn’t manage that. In test after test, conducted at Freedman’s lab in Denver, their brains showed two waves of equal size for the two clicks. It was as if they had to react all over again to the second click – even though they had just heard the same click a fraction of a second earlier.”

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

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

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Robert Kolker Quote: “Gottesman and Shields’s theory became known as the “diathesis-stress hypothesis” – nature, activated by nurture.”

64. “Gottesman and Shields’s theory became known as the “diathesis-stress hypothesis” – nature, activated by nurture.”

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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.”

65. “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.”

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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.”

66. “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.”

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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.”

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

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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.”

68. “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

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