Adrenochrome research led to treatment for Schizophrenia–Suppressed
Suppressed researchdig. Schizophrenia. Vitamin B3 treatment
https://healthy.net/author/abram-hoffer-md-phd/
" About thirty years ago I predicted that it would take at least forty years before megavitamin treatment would be accepted. After all, Moses walked his Israelite followers in circles in the desert for 40 years before initiating the invasion of the Holy Land. He realized that two generations of people born and raised in slavery would have to die before he could depend upon them to have enough fighting spirit and spunk to attempt the invasion. Do we have to wait for more than two generations of psychiatrists bred in the analytic and tranquilizer era to die before their offspring can begin to think about orthomolecular treatment of schizophrenic patients? Our first megavitamin treatment paper was published in 1957. Curriculum Vitae"
DIGs
1937, American Medical Association publishes short blurb about Dementia Praecox (aka Schizophrenia) (article "borrowed" from JAMA)
- Historically considered an "Unsolvable Puzzle"
- IDs Dementia Praecox Committee of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Northern Jurisdiction of the Unites States as lead Research Funding Agent (Later - 1950s - in conjuction with National Institutes of Mental Health)
- "…the medical professional may well look to the distinguished committee that has this problem in hand."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/277224
1950s, Schizophrenia found to be due to excess adrenochrome build up in brain. High doses of vitamins, especially B3 (niacin) help immensely. Patient vitamin regimen compliance is main source of failure to reach cure.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8807/a8a382dc16c74a8419b4c8fe800e86e0ac86.pdf
1980, timeline of research, funding, and discovery documented in ORTHOMOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
https://isom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JOM_1980_09_2_12_Dr_Nolan_DC_Lewis_1889-1979.pdf
2020 Status on Vitamin B for Schizophrenia according to McGill (referenced in above excerpt): Jury is still out due to a lack of research.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/drugs-health-history-you-asked/niacin-possible-successful-treatment-schizophrenia