Aphasia theories treatment.

In her biography of the mathematician John Nash, Sylvia Nasar (1998) described the treatments that Nash underwent for schizophrenia including insulin coma therapy (ICT), in which insulin was delivered intravenously to lower his blood sugar levels and produce a coma. The use of insulin was not predicated on a well-developed theory of the neuropathological basis of schizophrenia.

Rather, its application derived from the observations of a psychiatrist named Max Sakel, who, for reasons that are unclear, was using insulin to treat withdrawal in individuals addicted to morphine. Sakel ...

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