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  Abram Hoffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hoffer served as the Director of Psychiatric Research for the Saskatchewan Department of Public Health in Regina from 1950 to 1957.
Hoffer and Osmond also did pioneering studies with an indole, LSD, to simulate delirium tremens to treat over 2000 alcoholics with a 45-50% success rate.
Hoffer collaborated with Linus Pauling on several aspects of orthomolecular medicine but especially the anticancer actions of vitamin C.
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 Abram Hoffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoffer was a faculty member of the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan from 1955-67.
Hoffer claimed a 50% success rate with 2000 alcoholics, although he noted that it was more likely the psychedelic experience of LSD rather than simulated delirium tremens that convinced the alcoholics to stop drinking.
Hoffer's treatment for schizophrenia and theories of orthomolecular medicine remain controversial as they have not been generally accepted by the mainstream medical community as of 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abram_Hoffer   (915 words)

  
 DoctorYourself.com - Abram Hoffer, M.D. Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hoffer A: The effect of adrenochrome and adrenolutin on the behavior of animals and the psychology of man. Int Rev Neurobiology 4:307-371, 1962.
Hoffer A and Osmond H: The adrenochrome hypothesis and psychiatry.
Hoffer A and Pauling L: Hardin Jones biostatistical analysis of mortality data for cohorts of cancer patients with a large fraction surviving at the termination of the study and a comparison of survival times of cancer patients receiving large regular oral doses of vitamin C and other nutrients with similar patients not receiving those doses.
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 Le Magazine, January 2003 - Report: Vitamins And Minerals Help Fight Off Diseases Of The Mind And The Body
Interview with Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized physician, author, medical researcher and pioneer in the use of vitamins and nutrients to treat disease.
Hoffer has spent the past five decades conducting research related to the practice of orthomolecular medicine, which emphasizes the use of nutrients in optimum doses for the treatment of a wide range of diseases.
Abram Hoffer: In 1950, I had just finished my general hospital internship, and I was interested in doing some research in psychiatry.
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 The Human Need and its Fulfillment Through Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Abram Hoffer studied schizophrenia and cancer, and he claimed that as a rule schizophrenics don't get cancer, and schizophrenics tend to be healthier in other ways.
Hoffer would say that each of the anecdotal reports submitted to Hardy presents evidence that its contributor is psychotic and needs to take certain vitamins and avoid certain other foods.
Hoffer would argue that any person perceiving the subjective light is close to insanity and needs the orthomolecular cure.
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 DoctorYourself.com - Niacin Therapy Details
Hoffer A: The Schizophrenia, Stress and Adrenochrome Hypothesis.
Hoffer A: Orthomolecular Medicine For Physicians, Keats Pub, New Canaan, CT, 1989.
Hoffer A: Safety, Side Effects and Relative Lack of Toxicity of Nicotinic acid and Nicotinamide.
www.doctoryourself.com /hoffer_niacin.html   (7328 words)

  
 Perception, Behaviour, Thought & Vitamin B-3
In his new book Dr. Hoffer's ABC of Natural Nutrition for Children, Abram Hoffer, a pioneer in orthomolecular psychiatry, refers to Spies' article to show that the connection between pellagra, caused by niacin deficiency, and behavior abnormalities is not new information.
Hoffer began using large doses of vitamins (particularly B3) and minerals to treat schizophrenics successfully in the 1950's.
Hoffer's ABC of Natural Nutrition for Children includes a hundred-question Perceptual Dysfunction Test that can be completed by young children with the help of a parent.
www.lightparty.com /Health/HoffersABC.html   (1097 words)

  
 Ray's Articles - Schizophrenia
Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond spearheaded this nutritional approach that includes appropriate sufficient doses of niacin.
The six double blinds done by Hoffer et al were the first double blind placebo controlled trials ever done in the history of psychiatry (Hoffer et al, 1957).
Dr. Abram Hoffer claims that perhaps 70% of acute schizophrenia cases have pyrrole disorder and that recovered patients have no pyrrole disorder (Edelman, 1996).
www.nmrc.ca /schizophrenia.htm   (1981 words)

  
 Abram Hoffer Attention Deficit Disorder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hoffer?s work could justly be is known about addiction depression schizophrenia attention deficit depended on thought as did Pauling rather than on equipment." wrote Abram Hoffer.
Abram Hoffer Dr. David Horrobin Dr. Larry therapy Dossey Dr. Bernie Siegel Medicine Alternative Approaches to Treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and many Attention deficit disorder is characterized by poor or short attention span and impulsivity with or by Abram Hoffer MD PhD 1999.
Abram Hoffer M.D. Ph.D. a biochemist and psychiatrist with 50 years Consider Hoffer's views on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: "The DSM system (the standard of the American There is reason behavior to suspect that Attention Deficit Disorder is really Vitamin Deficit Disorder.
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 Natural Healthline News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
While other clinicians, because of their more self-aggrandizing nature, may be somewhat more famous in the public's mind, Hoffer is well respected and widely known in the medical and scientific world and has been extremely influential to his peers.
Hoffer is president of the Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation and editor of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
Hoffer: I think that one should define what is meant by "prevention." I consider prevention any change in lifestyle, in nutrition, or in medical procedures which really does prevent an illness from appearing.
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 Orthomolecular psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pioneered in the 1950s by psychiatric physician-biochemists, Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond in Canada, the embryonic field of orthomolecular psychiatry was further advanced by the efforts and support of Carl Pfeiffer and Linus Pauling.
Abram Hoffer (July 2004) Healing Schizophrenia: Complementary Vitamin and Drug Treatments, CCNM Press, ISBN 1-897025-08-4
Abram Hoffer (2004) Healing Children's Attention and Behavior Disorders: Complementary Nutritional and Psychological Treatments, CCNM Press, ISBN 1-897025-10-6
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthomolecular_psychiatry   (610 words)

  
 books about: hoffer (correspondence orthomolecular dysfunctions)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hoffer has showed in detail the health benefits, both physical and mental, from eating a diet of fresh, natural, unprocessed foods and adding supplemtary vitamins.
Eric Hoffer, a self-taught genius who never received a formal education and has spent most of his life performing menial manual labor, is a unique phenomenon.
Mr Hoffer helped me to see that my attractions to these movements, which have largely been abandoned by even their most ardent proponents, were largely projections of unresolved and indeed unfaced inner coflicts.
www.very-clever.com /books/hoffer   (1355 words)

  
 Down Syndrome and Vitamin Therapy
At age 85, Dr. Hoffer is as sharp as most of his colleagues half his age.
Dr. Hoffer founded the American Schizophrenia Association (later known as the Huxly Institute for Biosocial Research) in 1964, and the Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation in 1968.
Hoffer's work had a significant influence on Pauling who joined the editorial board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry.
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 biblio_hoffer
Hoffer A. The adrenochrome hypothesis of schizophrenia revisited.
Hoffer A. Gastric bypass surgery and nutrient deficiency.
Hoffer A: The Discovery of Kryptopyrrole and its Importance in Diagnosis of Biochemical Imbalances in Schizophrenia and in Criminal Behavior.
www.doctoryourself.com /biblio_hoffer.html   (3694 words)

  
 Hoffer's Home Page
Hoffer A, Kelm H and Osmond H: The Hoffer-Osmond Diagnostic Test.
One of my complaints about psychiatric hospitals is that, on the rare occasion when my patients are admitted, they promptly stop my whole program, place them on other medication, take away their vitamins and when they are discharged and return to me, I have to start them all over again.
Smythies in 1952 led to the adrenochrome hypothesis of Hoffer, Osmond and Smythies.
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 Niacin, Coronary Disease and Longevity by Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
Niacin, Coronary Disease and Longevity by Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. Niacin, Coronary Disease and Longevity
Hoffer and Callbeck (1957) reported that the hypocholesterolemic action of niacin was related to the activity of the autonomic nervous system.
Hoffer and Callbeck found that niacin also lowered cholesterol levels of schizophrenic patients, but the schizophrenic response was represented by a different equation Y = 0.28X -0.43Z + 53.
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 October 2005 Talented Flowers Endnotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Abram Hoffer, Humphry Osmond, and John Smythies, “Schizophrenia: a New Approach.
Abram Hoffer, “The Adrenochrome Hypothesis of Schizophrenia Revisited,” Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry 10 (1981), pp.
Abram Hoffer, Humphry Osmond, Margaret Jean Callbeck, and Irwin Kahan, “Treatment of Schizophrenia with Nicotinic Acid and Nicotinamide,” Journal of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology 18 (1957), pp.
www.accn.ca /april2006_orthomolecular_endnotes.html   (592 words)

  
 How many of your patiients are well doctor?
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, internationally-respected pioneering leader in effective treatment of schizophrenia, advised natural medicine advocate and Councilmember Kent Pullen that King County elected officials should demand a better job from their psychiatrists.
Hoffer says that a disturbing trend has taken hold in mental illness.
Hoffer sadly noted the word "cure" does not appear in any psychiatric dictionary, although the word does appear in other medical dictionaries.
www.merrily.com /well.htm   (497 words)

  
 La Leva di Archimede (ENG): Review of Dr. Abram Hoffer's Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia
That Dr. Hoffer can compress a lifetime of research experience into one readable and surprisingly short book is a tribute to how clearly he teaches both layman and physician the essentials of niacin treatment.
Hoffer has treated thousands and thousands of such patients for nearly half a century.
Such material is made available for educational purposes, to advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in the 'fair use doctrine'.
www.laleva.org /eng/2004/03/review_of_dr_abram_hoffers_vitamin_b3_and_schizophrenia.html   (1340 words)

  
 info: Abram_Hoffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Abram Hoffer MD, PhD Interview by Peter Barry ChowkaAbram Hoffer MD, PhD Interviewed by Peter Barry Chowka On Orthomolecular Medicine ©1997 by Peter Barry Chowka.
Abram Hoffer on Gerson TherapyABRAM HOFFER, M.D, ON THE GERSON CANCER THERAPY "Max Gerson, M.D., treated a series of cancer patients with special (mostly vegetable juice) diets and with some nutrients including niacin 50 mg 8 to...
At 88, Dr. Abram Hoffer is still dispensing wise nutritional advice and damning critiques of...
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 Abram Hoffer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Abram Hoffer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This short list includes some of Hoffer's publications, many co-authored with Humphry Osmond.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Abram Hoffer contains research on
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Abram_Hoffer   (98 words)

  
 Natural Healthline News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
His work overall represents an absolutely vital and original series of contributions to contemporary natural medicine, particularly in view of the fact that he began his career decades ago when alternative therapies were not highly regarded by the mainstream and when clinical innovation was particularly disfavored.
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD: I do agree that mental illness is very prevalent but the number of people who are ill depends on how one defines mental illness.
Hoffer: The term "orthomolecular psychiatry" or "orthomolecular medicine" was developed by Linus Pauling, PhD in his famous report to Science magazine in 1968.
naturalhealthline.com /newsletter/15feb00/hoffer2.htm   (3758 words)

  
 Bargain Prices on Abram Hoffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
There are two kinds of books that deal with bio-medical issues: those that have reputable scientific references located within the book, and those that don't.
Hoffer is a brilliant and extensively published author in both journals and books.
The book " Dr. Hoffer's ABC of Natural Nutrition for Children: With Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Disorders and Mental State Dysfunctions" by Abram Hoffer is a source of information on children's health and nutrition.
www.jans-bargin-shopping.com /amazon/authorsearch_Abram%20Hoffer/mode_books   (415 words)

  
 SCHIZOPHRENIA - THERE IS HOPE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA CAN BE CURED. IT IS A BIOCHEMICAL IMBALANCE
In 1975 while studying for my diploma in Behavioral Science, I read a book by Dr. Abram Hoffer telling me that schizophrenia could be cured by large amounts of niacin and vitamin C. Having been well indoctrinated by allopathic medicine in my training as a registered nurse, I really didn't believe it.
Dr. Hoffer and several orthomolecular physicians share their experience along with people who have recovered from schizophrenia and chronic depression in this video.
Based on the works of Abram Hoffer, M.D., pioneer of nutritional psychiatry, as reported in Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness by Melvyn Werbach, M.D. Our grateful acknowledgement to Dr. Hoffer for permission to use his work.
www.4optimallife.com /Alternative-Medicines-Cures-For-Schizophrenia-Mental-Illness.html   (1992 words)

  
 The Abram Hoffer saga.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As the result of my complaint on the BMJ site about Dr Abram Hoffer's (of orthomolecular fame) failure to provide further information about his results, he has contacted me. He claims to have forgotten the previous correspondence.
I subsequently sent a further email pointing out that despite your discussion of various possible reasons why the studies might be conflicting, you have avoided the most obvious one of all, and that is the patient groups being compared in your trial are seriously different patient populations.
I subsequently sent a > further email pointing out that despite your discussion of various > possible > reasons why the studies might be conflicting, you have avoided the most > obvious one of all, and that is the patient groups being compared in your > trial are seriously different patient populations.
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