by Bob Kolker | Apr 6, 2020 | Media
“These are challenging times, independent of mental illness. I think that this is an example of a family that really experienced not just one but two or three or four different horrors all at once and came out the other side. It’s about not turning inward when...
by Bob Kolker | Apr 2, 2020 | Media
In his new book, Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker reveals how a family was devastated by the debilitating disease—and became invaluable to scientific research. “By analyzing the family’s genetic makeup, researchers are on the cusp of making significant advances...
by Bob Kolker | Mar 30, 2020 | Media
As with Lost Girls, once again you have a story where there isn’t a definitive answer: Despite what researchers have learned from the Galvins’ DNA, we still don’t really know what causes schizophrenia or even, really, what it is. In such cases, is finding a...
by Bob Kolker | Mar 10, 2020 | Media
They were the perfect family, until illness took the children, one by one. Robert Kolker joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the Galvin family, which saw schizophrenia take over six of 12 kids – drawing interest from the National Institute of Mental Health. His book is...
by Bob Kolker | Mar 1, 2020 | Media
“I was surprised to learn many things when researching the Galvin family’s story and the history of mental illness treatment. My first surprise was that there has been no significant advancement in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments of psychosis...
by Bob Kolker | Jan 18, 2020 | Media
Kolker expertly weaves the Galvins’ story with the history of schizophrenia. And what a horrible history it is. In the 1930s, for example, and in some cases even later, treatment included injections of animal blood, lobotomy and even sterilisation. The family’s...
