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Robert Kolker Quote: “Then he started seeing things. First Donald and Jim, then Brian and Peter, now Matt and Joe – six of the twelve of them, lost.”

51. “Then he started seeing things. First Donald and Jim, then Brian and Peter, now Matt and Joe – six of the twelve of them, lost.”

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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.”

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

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

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

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Robert Kolker Quote: “What sort of early interventions might have helped them before the medications took their toll, neutralizing them without curing them? And what about the thousands of people who couldn’t afford what her son had – who languish because of a lack of resources, or a stigma from a society that would prefer to pretend that people like them do not exist?”

56. “What sort of early interventions might have helped them before the medications took their toll, neutralizing them without curing them? And what about the thousands of people who couldn’t afford what her son had – who languish because of a lack of resources, or a stigma from a society that would prefer to pretend that people like them do not exist?”

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

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

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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.”

59. “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: “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.”

60. “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: “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.”

61. “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.”

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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.”

62. “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.”

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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.”

63. “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 double-click test was not testing for schizophrenia itself. It was testing sensory gating, which was one potential aspect of schizophrenia. What made this result so exciting was that a sensory gating deficiency might well be genetic – and therefore could be traced through generations.”

64. “The double-click test was not testing for schizophrenia itself. It was testing sensory gating, which was one potential aspect of schizophrenia. What made this result so exciting was that a sensory gating deficiency might well be genetic – and therefore could be traced through generations.”

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

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

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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.”

66. “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.”

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

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

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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.”

68. “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

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