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Jun 4, 2015 · 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...
- Rachael Rettner, Livescience
May 27, 2015 · Now, what symptoms did Nash seem to have? His illness began in 1959 at age 30, a bit past the typical window. He had already fashioned his brilliant doctoral dissertation.
A panel of experts answered your questions on John Nash's extraordinary story, on mental illness, treatment, and recovery, in this online forum.
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John Forbes Nash Junior was 86 at the time of his death. For people suffering with schizophrenia and those close to them, John Nash’s story provides us with great hope.
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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 n...
But in the 1980s, when Nash was in his 50s, his condition began to improve. In an email to a colleague in the mid-1990s, Nash said, \"I emerged from irrational thinking, ultimately, without medicine other than the natural hormonal changes of aging,\" according to The New York Times. Nash and his wife Alicia died, at ages 86 and 82, respectively, in...
It's not clear why only some schizophrenia patients get better, but researchers do know that a number of factors are linked with better outcomes. Nash appeared to have had many of these factors in his favor, Moreno said. [5 Controversial Mental Health Treatments]
People who have a later onset of the disease tend to do better than those who experience their first episode of psychosis in their teens, Moreno said. (\"Psychosis\" refers to losing touch with reality, exhibited by symptoms like delusions.) Nash was 30 years old when he started to experience symptoms of schizophrenia, which include hallucinations ...
\"We know, as a general rule, with exceptions, that as people with schizophrenia age, they have fewer symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations,\" Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia, said in an interview with \"American Experience.\"
However, Moreno said that many patients will get worse over time if they don't have access to proper medical care and are not in a supportive environment.
\"When you have a schizophrenic who has had the multiple psychotic breaks, there is a downward path,\" Moreno said. Patients suffer financially because they can't work, physically because they can't take care of themselves, and socially because their bizarre behaviors distance them from others, Moreno said.
Future research into the causes of the disease may lead to better ways to prevent and treat the illness, NIMH says.
May 24, 2015 · John Forbes Nash Jr., who died in a traffic accident on May 23, gained more fame than most mathematicians, though not only on account of his math. His battle with schizophrenia, described...
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John Nash on mental illness | "I was disturbed in this way for a very long period of time, like 25 years, so it was quite a portion of a life's history." On #WorldSchizophreniaDay,... | By Nobel PrizeFacebook.
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