Kenny Smith

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Ladislas Meduna, a Hungarian neuropsychiatrist, observed that if schizophrenics suffered seizures, they were relieved of their psychosis. Similarly, if an epileptic developed schizophrenia, they had fewer seizures. (Today, epileptics are thought to be more, rather than less, prone to psychosis.)
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
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