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According to a recent study newer drugs commonly used to treat schizophrenia are not more effective than an older less costly medication. Diane and her guests talk about the study and its implications.
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, president of the Treatment Advocacy Center
Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health/NIH
Biographer Ron Powers presents what he calls "interpretive portraiture" of American humorist, essayist and novelist Mark Twain, and makes the case that Twain became the representative figure of his times.
Ron Powers, author of "Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain"
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