NY Times Features Breakthrough in Treatment of Schizophrenia by Foundation-funded Scientist

NY Times Features Breakthrough in Treatment of Schizophrenia by Foundation-funded Scientist

Posted: October 6, 2011

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Dr. Aaron T. Beck, Foundation Distinguished Investigator, invented cognitive behavioral therapy decades ago and now demonstrates that it can successfully treat the ‘negative’ symptoms of schizophrenia, such as emotional flatness, listlessness and isolation. “… This is not like therapy for depressives … These people do not get better; no one had any good therapy for them,” he explains.

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