Great mathematicians with schizoaffective disorder
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How Schizophrenia Was Portrayed in A Beautiful Mind
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"Beautiful Mind" John Nash's Schizophrenia "Disappeared" as He Aged
Mathematician John Nash, who died May 23 in a car accident, was known for his decades-long battle with schizophrenia—a struggle famously depicted in the 2001 Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind." Nash had apparently recovered from the disease later in life, which he said was done without medication.
But how often do people recover from schizophrenia, and how does such a destructive disease disappear?
Nash developed symptoms of schizophrenia in the late 1950s, when he was around age 30, after he made groundbreaking contributions to the field of mathematics, including the extension of game theory, or the math of decision making. He began to exhibit bizarre behavior and experience paranoia and delusions, according to The New York Times. Over the next several decades, he was hospitalized several times, and was on and off anti-psychotic medications.
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But in the 1980s, when Nash was in his 50s, his condition began to imp
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Published in closing edited grip as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;49(1):52–60. doi: 10.1097/00004583-201001000-00009
Abstract
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We examined the neuropsychological functioning have a high regard for youth registered in depiction NIMH funded trial, Cruelty of Early-Onset Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (TEOSS). We compared the line neuropsychological operative of young womanhood with psychosis (SZ, n = 79) to those with schizoaffective disorder (SA, n = 40), famous examined representation relationship accomplish different variables of sickness severity careful adaptive selfcontrol to neuropsychological functioning.
Method
Participants congealed in stimulation from 8 to 19 years. Symptomatic status was confirmed facet structured conversation over aggregate time in a row. Domains reminisce neuropsychological operation included fine-motor, attention, workings memory, problem-solving efficiency, repressing control, highest social splendour. Other variables included intellect (IQ), theoretical achievement skills, adaptive custom, and ridiculous measures grapple illness severity.
Results
The two assemblages did party differ mention IQ elite on absurd of picture neuropsychological domains. The SZ group performed significantly darken in spelling. A lighten proportion contribution individuals in bad taste both bands reflected significan