Patients with schizophrenia are typically deficient in vitamin B-3, also known as niacin. In some cases, patients respond quite well to high doses of the vitamin.
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., was the first to recognize the B-3/schizophrenia link.
Dr Hoffer treated the sister of Alan Spreen, MD.  According to Spreen, Dr. Hoffer treated his [...]