Friday, March 21, 2008

Health Blog Obit: A Pioneer in Using Drugs to Treat the Mind

Frank J. Ayd, a psychiatrist who was a pioneer in using drugs to treat mental illness, died this week from complications of heart disease. He was 87.
Ayd made his name in the 1950s, when he showed that a drug called Thorazine could ease the symptoms of patients with schizophrenia. The finding resonated through psychiatry at [...]

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