INTRODUCTION Huxley, Mayr, Osmond, and Hoffer (1964) presented a hypothesis that schizophrenia is a genetic morphism (see Huxley, 1955). This is in general agreement with the proposition that all genetic characteristics which exist in a population at a frequency higher than can be maintained by mutation alone must be a morphism. The frequency of the morphic gene is the result of a balance betwe...

"Megavitamin therapy" was first coined in 1952 by psychiatrists Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer to describe the large dosages of niacin used in the treatment of schizophrenia and mescaline psychosis. Megavitamin therapy has become a sub-category of Orthomolecular medicine. The term "Orthomolecular" was first utilized by two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling in 1968 to characterize the treatment...

Abstract The current standard of care for schizophrenic patients, such as continual medication with atypical antipsychotic drugs, does more harm than good. A review of the literature revealed that in addition to causing the well known side effects of extrapyramidal symptoms and tardive dyskinesia, side effects such as hyperprolactinemia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain, diabetes, cardiac arrhyt...

Four new species of brachypterous Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) are described. These are: Cheiloneurus mandyanus Hayat, sp. nov., Encyrtus coorgensis Hayat & Zeya, sp. nov., Microterys atturensis Hayat, sp. nov. and Pseudectroma indicum Hayat & Zeya, sp. nov. The following species that exist either in brachypterous forms only or in both brachypterous and macropterous forms are recorded...

During ODP Leg 138, we tested a prototype instrument, developed at Oregon State University, for measuring light reflectance in 511 channels of the visible and near-infrared bands. The technique of reflectance spectroscopy has been used for some time in chemistry and mineralogy (e.g., Hunt, 1977; Gaffey, 1986) and has found applications in remote sensing of natural reflectance from aircraft and ...

This project explores techniques for reducing the complexity of an agent-based model (ABM). The analysis involved a model developed from the ethnographic research of Dr. Lee Hoffer in the Larimer area heroin market, which involved drug users, drug sellers, homeless individuals and police. The authors used statistical techniques to create a reduced version of the original model which maintained ...

J.D. SETHIAN Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375 USA e-mail: [email protected] S.P. OBENSCHAIN, M. MYERS, A J. SCHMITT, D. COLOMBANT, J. GARDNER, F. HEGLER, M. WOLFORD, J. GIULIANI Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC S. PAYNE, C. BIBEAU, A. BARAYMIAN, R. BEACH, K. SCHAFFERS, K. SKULINA, W. MEIER, J. LATKOWSKI, J. LINDL...

s and Introductions Serologic and molecular investigations of a chimera N.A. MIFSUD, A.P. HADDAD, C.F. HART, R. HOLDSWORTH, J.A. CONDON, M. SWAIN, AND R.L. SPARROW Precipitation of serum proteins by polyethylene glycol (PEG) in pretransfusion testing J. HOFFER,W.P. KOSLOSKY, E.S. GLOSTER,T.M. DIMAIO, AND M.E. REID Hemochromatosis, iron, and blood donation: a short review A.C. FIELDS AND A.J. GR...

No. 6 at Keller Golf Course in St. Paul Although our random probing with a Hoffer tube of 142 greens on 36 golf courses back in 1969 and 1970 did work to provide documentation that just about every established green (139/142) that we sampled was infested with plant nematodes, I am not necessarily comfortable in recommending such "randomness" with regard to sampling. Plant pathogens (organisms t...

Page 287 Successful Treatment of Schizophrenia Requires Optimal Daily Doses of Vitamin B3 For over 50 years Dr. Abram Hoffer has been educating clinicians about the need to correctly (optimally) dose schizophrenics with vitamin B3 (niacin; niacinamide). For the past 10 years I have, likewise, educated numerous naturopathic and medical doctors about the very same thing. For some reason, both typ...