they have schizophrenia. on the other hand, those aren't the only ways that we can experience mental trouble in our life. some of the things that give us trouble, is how we're constituted. not what we have, but who we are, will influence how we feel in certain situations, and sometimes how we feel in certain situations becomes so distressed, we need help with it. and then finally, everyone knows and appreciates that you can have difficulty in life because of what's happened to you, what you've encountered. damage to the brain... the interplay of personality and environment... difficult life situations... all can contribute to mental distress. so can family history. andrew leuchter: if an individual has a first-degree relative, that is a father, mother, brother, sister, who suffers from bipolar disorder, manic depressive illness, or from depression, they are at significantly increased risk for having a mood disorder themselves. a mood disorder is an emotional state, that to some degree, interferes with social,

if you have schizophrenia -- just pretend. what do you see that is different? these areas are much different, much more engaged. you might see there is a lot more blue as well in this map. look at this area. it is very different than that area, much more engaged. if you have a bipolar illness, you are different than if you have schizophrenia. they could have this illness or in this illness, those are the two most common. physicians cannot tell the difference, but mri scanners can. the legal system, i can use this instead of psychiatrists to support or are not my client has a mental illness. they would be able to inform and make decisions about how these things should be used in the legal system. what about this guy? anthony hopkins. what does his brain look like? if your behavior is completely different, your brain is going to be different. women, you know that men have different behavior. mris are capable of telling you how this gender difference is manifest. we can also study people like him. i study individuals -- if

he had schizophrenia. ♪ ♪ this is zac pogliano today.sic, but the disease has forced him to put his life on hold. he's been hospitalized several times. were the voices criticizing you in any way? >> yes. i could tell you that it was a man voice and a woman voice picking on me. >> reporter: schizophrenia usually strikes young adults between the ages of 16 and 30. not only can they hear voices, they may also suffer from visual hallucinations, delusions, and extreme paranoia. zac can appear robotic and emotionless. those are symptoms of the disease. the medication he takes can worsen those symptoms and also cause weight gain. do you think there's a stigma attached to having mental illness? >> of course. people will judge you, and especially after someone gets assaulted by a crazy guy, i... i could be that crazy guy. >> reporter: zac has never been violent. while about 95% of violence is committed by people with no serious mental illness, those with schizophrenia are two to four times more likely to commit violence than the average person. s

caller: hearing voices is a typical symptom of a schizophrenia. about three-quarters of people experience that. this is what we're looking at all over the united states as part of the failed system. wheat closed down so many beds. 19 out of 20 that existed for the seriously mentally ill 40 years ago do not exist anymore. in pennsylvania, there are very few beds available. they put them in for five days and they get them out because there are so many other people who need that bad. it is incredibly inefficient. if they put him on allocation commitment, which they do not years, he would have to take his medicine, it would keep him well, and he would not have to go back to the hospital all the time. smoking marijuana on top of schizophrenia usually makes the symptoms worse, similarly severe alcohol problems does not help any things either. host: our guest dr. torrey writes that the experiment on treating the mentally ill has failed. what could the states do better in your opinion? guest: 1 the federal government took responsibility, the states, at le

. >> what we know now after the fact is that he had late onset paranoid schizophrenia. >> reporter: laura's murderer, scott thorpe, killed two others then went home and took a nap. he was eventually sentenced to a locked mental hospital for life. >> we felt that laura's death was a result of a failed mental health system. >> we wanted to help prevent people from being so mentally ill that they would commit a violent act. >> reporter: helen thompson, a former psychiatric nurse, was a california legislator at the time, working on a new law to get treatment and social services like housing for reluctant and sometimes dangerous mentally ill individuals. people who were not covered by existing laws.resistant. didn't want to go to the clinic or didn't want to take their medicines. we were answering the frustrations of families who were told they didn't need help. they called the police. the police would take them to the hospital or the jail. they'd be released. and back on the street. and it became a rotating circular activity. >> reporter: thompson named her law for laura wilcox. after much cont

on the crazy question if we were in another culture, aboriginal culture anthropologist talk of schizophrenia as the shaman disease. those who have experiences in our culture reid would say they're crazy and need medication but in other cultures and times people who had extraordinary mental breakdowns come back and feel like they he healed the cells that is the people they go to i think it'll run harvard somehow saw himself that way he had of a theory of his life as the truth that he was so heroic veteran of world war ii and he was so badly injured he was crippled msn could not help him so he developed his own techniques appealing that is what you called in to lew dianetics and the route of scientology. the record shows he was never injured. he did have conjunctivitis. [laughter] but there is nothing seriously wrong. the idea of the shaman journey is buried in the legend he created about himself. was see a con man? this is probably the most common perception of the old ron hubbard. i think if he really were he would have taken the money and run. he never did that. he spent his entire existenc

promote schools act.ealth process he has admitted to being part of with issues of depression, schizophrenia, anger, and drug abuse. >> senate republicans have blocked the nomination of chuck hagel as defense secretary over about president actions in the aftermath of september's deadly attacks in benghazi. the president accused republicans of playing politics with national security. democrats have vowed to revive the nomination when lawmakers return after the holiday break. >> it will be tough to get town using metro this holiday weekend. from 10:00 tonight until closing monday, orange line trains between stadium- armory and cheverly. blue line trains will not run armory and largo center. on saturday, green line trains between greenmount and college park. all buses will be available. red line trains will single islandetween rhode avenue and takoma. have the entire list and the track work schedule at wjla.com. check it out. it's the end of an era at a d.c. at thehool that closing year. the school it's where several nba legends start.ir they toasted their final home basketball game. jay korff

some professionals have weighed in with malignant narcissism, paranoid schizophrenia. and certainly if you look at his behavior and his thinking, he does show signs of a lot of the same. nobody in history has ever mapped his own mentality quite as hubbard, meticulously examining every detail, just as a writer and here we are in our bookstore. i have to take my hat off to him. he holds the guinness book of world records for the number of titles he published, more than a thousand. so he continually wrote and mostly what he wrote about inside college he was his own interior journey that is the scientology really is and when you enter the church of scientology, it is like a brick or trail into his mind. the further you go into the church, the deeper into sunday's minute. one way i look at l. ron hubbard, if we were in another culture, same operational culture, anthropologists sometimes look at schizophrenia as the shaman disease. people who have these experiences, sometimes in our culture would say they are crazy and need to be on medication. in other cultures and other ti

) it's the great american form, because it's so simple and elemental and it represents all the schizophrenia experience. it's as if we're between myths. the old myth doesn't really exist anymore. and what is the new one that's to come down the road? that'll be very interesting to see. (elmore leonard) i've never thought of westerns as mythology. i've never thought of the western hero riding in as some kind of a redeemer. i just saw them as good material for stories. ♪ see them tumblin' down ♪ pledging their love ♪ to the ground (clint eastwood) well, i think he was a hero eventually. just a reticent hero, you might say, which i thought gave a certain humanity to him because he didn't rush to be a hero, it just sorta was forced upon him. ♪ cares of the past ♪ are behind ♪ nowhere to go ♪ but i'll find ♪ just where ♪ the trail will wind ♪ drifting along... ♪ annenberg media ♪ and: with additional funding from these foundations and individuals: and by: and the annual financial support of for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner

you talked earlier about the schizophrenia within some of the gop members.is most manifest in the house. they really have two minds. you've got the tea party contingent that wants to tear down government that ran on a platform of tearing down and never made the transition of being for anything. right now they're driving the train. they want the sequester to go into effect. they want it to go into effect because they want to show that they're serious about this and they feel that's their mandate. at the same time, it's going to be enormously destructive to the economy. we are poised to make a recovery, and if just the -- if the congress could get out of the way and stop manufacturing these crises month after month, i think we would have a full recovery. but what the president has proposed, which is a reasonable compromise, that's part spending cuts, part revenues is being rejected by the house of representatives' ldership and we are where we are. >> two major points i heard there at the beginning by the congressman. john, i want you to respond. first of all,

it's the great american form; it's so simple and elemental, it represents the schizophrenia of the american experience. just when the western seems like it's gone away, someone else comes along with a different twist on it. annenberg media ♪ and: with additional funding om these foundations and individuals: and by: and the annual financial support of: hello, i'm john lithgow. welcome to "american cinema." in "the man who shot liberty lance," john ford's great film a newspaperman says, "whethe legendecomes fact, print the legend." that may not be good journalism but it makes a good western. the history of the western is often a history of legends, billy the kid, wyatt ear the nfht at the ok corral. not the real west, but a mythical place full of images that are uniquely american: the enrontier, the outlaw, the solitary, often reluant hero. the western is also landscapes; a unique stage on which dramas from the american experience get played out. a young man rebels against his stepfathern "red river." an uncle beces obsessed with finding his niece in "the searchers." a reformed killer is caug

it's the great american form; it's so simple and elemental, it represents the schizophrenia of the american experience. just when the western seems like it's gone away, someone else comes along with a different twist on it. annenberg media ♪ and: with additional funding from these foundations and individuals: and by: and the annual financial support of: hello, i'm john lithgow. welcome to "american cinema." in "the man who shot liberty valance," john ford's great film a newspaperman says, "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." that may not be good journalism but it makes a good western. the history of the western is often a history of legends, billy the kid, wyatt earp, the gunfight at the ok corral. not the real west, but a mythical place full of images that are uniquely american: the open frontier, the outlaw, the solitary, often reluctant hero. the western is also landscapes; a unique stage on which dramas from the american experience get played out. a young man rebels against his stepfather in "red river." an uncle becomes obsessed with finding his niece in "the searchers." a

research that could lead to breakthroughs in treatment for autism, schizophrenia and ep leps.e of the union address, the president mentioned brain research as an example to invest in the best ideas. >> every dollar we invested returned $140 to our economy. today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to alz himers. now is not the time to gut the investment, now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race. we need to make those investments. >> i'm joined by columbia professor of neuroscience, one of the few select scientists who will appear at the white house next month and talk about what's called a brain activity map. fascinating stuff. thanks for being here, professor. >> you're welcome. >> what exactly does it mean to map the brain? >> so, this is the human brain. it is the most sophisticated and complex piece of matter in the universe. and there's a 100 billion nerons, connected in ways wez don't understand and firing away in patterns and they create our minds and creates what we are, our th

was the boy's mother who beat him as well as continually fed the child drugs intended to treat schizophrenia and adults meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow little corp has been shown until it was demanded political. or well when one along with two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in a move often criticized recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids i have always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure weeks after my death texan officials have little to say while they wait for autopsy results the results of the investigation with russia heavily involved and asking for punishment of those responsible could take weeks to be announced no arrests have yet been made while the investigation of floor paste and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why should it tak

which will hopefully provide breakthroughs in disorders like autism and schizophrenia. >> this is more like winning the lottery. >> reporter: ten other scientists worldwide joined bardman in receiving the award. the first of its kind. including dr. lewis cantly of cornell medical college, being recognized for cancer and diabetes research. >> i was glad i was sitting down, i almost fell. >> reporter: it's not just the money that surprised these scientists. the people behind it did too. tech billionaires, including russian entrepreneur yuri milliner, facebook cofounder mark zuckerberg, google co-founder sergei brynn and others formed a nonprofit called breakthrough prize in life sciences. instead of recognizing scientists who are already known for their accomplishments, these 11 recipients are young and studying novel breakthroughs in cancer, gene therapy, and stem-cell research. >> these are people who don't necessarily get a lot of recognition but they're actually doing things that impact all of our lives. >> reporter: more than twice the amount of the nobel prize, the breakthrough pri

there have also been allegations that the mother continually fed the child drugs intended to treat schizophrenia and adults meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously. the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow little co-operation was shown until it was demanded political. or you're going to. come up with almost two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in a move often criticized recently opposed to ban on american adoption of its kids i've always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure autopsy an investigation results are expected to take weeks if not months to be announced no arrests have yet been made the dead boy's younger brother's destiny is yet to be determined for now he continues living in the adoptive family where his brother died while the investigation is slow paced and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why shou

jon lapook visits with a mother and son struggling with schizophrenia. >> i could tell by the look ond not know who i was. and i had to say, "it's your mom." >> pelley: and an american treasure begins its second hundred years, thanks to a first lady. >> i think we all realize how important it is to save these great and beautiful buildings. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. veteran prosecutor mark hasse was on his way to work this morning. he parked where he usually did for a short walk to the courthouse in kaufman county just southeast of dallas. witnesses say that masked men intercepted hasse and shot him to death. the motive is unknown, but investigators are looking at hasse's cases, which have included drug dealers and organized cr

schizophrenia, for instance, or other psychoses, early intervention and helping people both behaviorally, learning skills to cope and sometimes psycho-pharmacologically giving them medication can really be extremely effective in helping young people avoid falling into a destructive pattern of behavior. in terms of-if the parent really-there is a lot of literature coming in about whether to medicate/not medicate. what can a parent be doing? can they be doing anything to really help that child become better adjusted? i think that's crucial. you know, as has been discussed in some of the earlier questions, we have moved away, and certainly over my career, from dumping everything on the parents and blaming the parents. at the same time, parents can play a critical role, at the very least, in observing, being aware of what their children are going through and being willing to intervene and get some help for them. we need to-and i think some of the work that you're doing is really helpful in diminishing the stigma and the shame attached to seeking help because so many young people really can b

he has also said that his family has dealt with depression schizophrenia, anger, and drug abuse. >> its, we have a live report from alabama just hours after carnival triumph docked, ending a nightmare for thousands of people. >> and 11-year-old girl fights for fairness after football league tells her no girls allowed. >> abc hit the show "scandal" is a fictional, but we will look at some real live scandals in the past in our nation's capital. all that at 6:00. >> north korea held a large rally to celebrate the success of its third nuclear test. more than 100,000 military officers soldiers, and civilians gathered in the north korean capital for a mass rally. the north said it successfully conducted an underground nuclear test on tuesday despite strong opposition and condemnation from the international community. a dental exam confirms the remains found in a burned mountain cabin in california are indeed those of christopher dorner wro. the former officer died in a fiery standoff with police after a manhunt. he killed four people including two law-enforcement officers. court documents rev

decision makings, some objective evidence, some evidence to bolster things like a diagnosis of schizophrenia or i.q., all the better. at the same time we need the critics in the courtroom explaining the shortcomings of the science so that we don't have false evidence that is introduced or undue reliance on science that isn't quite there yet. my preference is recognize it's already there, but make sure that we have robust discussions about the validity of the science before people buy into it too much. >> yeah, i would just add that i basically agree that it's already in the courtroom. however, i would caution that it's not in the courtroom for all uses. justice breyer in a case which was the third of the trilogy which is basically the supreme court weighing in on the admissibility of scientific evidence or expert evidence more generally, justice breyer referred to making sure that the science works for the task at hand. this notion of the task at hand i think ought not to be forgotten. the neuroscience might work for certain tasks very well and for other tasks not so well. so i think we have