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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanamist, who has a schizophrenic brother who was her motivation and inspiration to become a brain researcher, experienced a massive stroke and used it to study her brain from the inside out. She tells of her remarkable findings in a short video...click on the link, and than come back and share your reactions and opinions. I found it very upliftiing and inspiring, and promising...I hope you do too. Click the following to access the sent link:

TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)*

If this isn't a live link, than you can reach it at the following web address:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

I take care of my 50 year old brother with chronic schizophrenia...pharmaceuticals don't really help that much, and I find that the drugs prescribed create other problems, that his doctors don't address. I am looking for some organic solutions. My brother is not retarded, but he does listen to the voices, and for the most part, he laughs alot with the voices...he is happy. Some of the drugs prescribed, such as the injection of Respira Consta made him very aggravated and agitated, angry and aggressive...this is not my brother's normal personna. He is very gentle and kind hearted and non-aggressive, non-violent...used to be an incredible artist. He is tired of drugs, and wants to find a way that won't compromise his liver and other organs and overall health. The drugs take him into depression...so please feel free to contribute whatever positive and promising experience or knowledge that you have or have heard of. Thank you for your contribution.

An Israeli doctor says :

"Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor says:

"That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.

A Russian doctor says:

"In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."

The Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says:

"You guys are way behind...we recently took a man with no brains out of Texas, put him in the White House for eight years, and now half the country is looking for work."