At 30, John Nash suffered his first bout of full-blown schizophrenia, a disease sometimes called the "cancer of the mind." Aolicai Nash, his wife, was 26 at the time. "I wanted to help him," she ...

In 1952, Henri Laborit, a surgeon in Paris, was looking for a way to reduce surgical shock in his patients. Much of the shock came from the anaesthesia, and if he could find a way to use less, his ...