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Record information – Brief Schizophrenia
Series title:ExplorationsHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1959-01-29Item number (ISN):61560Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTOAccession:1984-0286Media:VideoPart:1 of 1Production date:1959-01-29Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:producer, Felix Lazarus; editing, Nick Borys; editorial supervision, Paul Wright; photography, Steve SoliloCountry of production:cnDistributor name:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationDescription:Television documentary program examining the disease of schizophrenia and the new direction towards a cure undertaken by a group of scientists at the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital in Weyburn and at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Dr. Humphrey Osmond, psychiatrist and supervisor of the Saskatchewan hospital, explains the nature of this disease and of the team's research which is based on the theory that there may be a a chemical cause for schizophrenia. At the university laboratory, a few members of the group are seen engaging in self-experiments with adrenochrome (a chemical product of the adrenal glands) and other hallucinatory drugs under the observations of other scientists. <30mn>Subjects:MENTAL ILLNESS - PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS~SCHIZOPHRENIALanguage:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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