orthomolecular psychiatry
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or·tho·mo·lec·u·lar psy·chi·a·try
an approach to psychiatry that focuses on the use of megavitamins and nutrition in the treatment of such mental illnesses as the schizophrenic disorders.
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orthomolecular psychiatry
A non-mainstream field of healthcare consisting of the application of orthomolecular medicine to mental health. Orthomolecular psychiatry attempts to establish a cause of individual symptoms and administer the exact amount of a substance (e.g., a vitamin or mineral) that will allegedly cure the patient.
In 1973, a task force convened by the American Psychiatric Association concluded that niacin monotherapy in patients with chronic schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was completely ineffective.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive
Orthomolecular psychiatry. Varying the concentrations of substances normally present in the human body may control mental disease.
One of the pioneers of
orthomolecular psychiatry (now called orthomolecular medicine) was Carl C.
Hawkins, MD, PhD, "Successful Prevention of Tardive Dykinesia: A 20 Year Study," published in the Journal of
Orthomolecular Psychiatry (January 1991), research proved that a regimen of certain vitamins helps prevent the neurological disorder tardive dykinesia.
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