John Nash, a groundbreaking mathematical genius, was at the peak of his career when his life was shattered by schizophrenia. After thirty years of devastating mental illness he mysteriously recovered, and in 1994 was awarded the Nobel Prize for work completed decades earlier. 

What you can do online at http://www.pbs.org/amex/nash/

- Ask experts about schizophrenia in an online forum that will take place April 25–May 3, 2002.  Alex Beam, journalist, Boston Globe, and author of “Gracefully Insane”; Irving I. Gottesman, Professor of Adult Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota; Raquel E. Gur, M.D., Ph.D; John Hsiao, M.D.; E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.; and journalist Robert Whitaker will reply to selected questions submitted before May 3.

- Access an in-depth interview with John Nash.
 
- Go behind the scenes with producer Randall MacLowry, who talks about the Hollywood film and describes what it was like to interview John Nash.

- Read about Hollywood's portrayal of mental illness in films such as “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”; “Me, Myself, and Irene”; “The Snake Pit”; “The Three Faces of Eve”; and more.

- Learn more about the Nash Equilibrium, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and the huge impact of game theory on everyday life.

- Trace a timeline of mental illness therapies from ancient Greece to the present.

http://www.pbs.org/amex/nash/

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