University of Saskatchewan University of Minnesota University of Toronto
Known for
Promotion of orthomolecular therapy as a treatment for schizophrenia
Scientific career
Fields
Schizophrenia, Nutrition, Alcoholism
Institutions
Saskatchewan Department of Public Health University of Saskatchewan
Abram Hoffer (November 11, 1917 – May 27, 2009) was a Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective disorders.[1] According to Hoffer, megavitamin therapy and other nutritional interventions are potentially effective treatments for cancer and schizophrenia.[2][3][4] Hoffer was also involved in studies of LSD as an experimental therapy for alcoholism and the discovery that high-dose niacin can be used to treat high cholesterol and other dyslipidemias.[5] Hoffer's ideas about megavitamin therapy to treat mental illness are not accepted by the medical community.[6]
^Hoffer, A (1990). "The Adrenochrome Hypothesis and Psychiatry". Retrieved July 25, 2011.
^"ACS : Orthomolecular Medicine". American Cancer Society. June 19, 2007. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008.
^Aaronson S; et al. (2003). "Cancer medicine". Cancer medicine 6 (Frei, Emil; Kufe, Donald W.; Holland, James F., eds). Hamilton, Ont: BC Decker. pp. 76. ISBN 1-55009-213-8.
^Nutrition Committee and Canadian Paediatric Society (January 1, 1990). "Megavitamin and megamineral therapy in childhood. Nutrition Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society". CMAJ. 143 (10): 1009–1013. PMC 1452516. PMID 1699646.
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AbramHoffer (November 11, 1917 – May 27, 2009) was a Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective...
reactions such as thought disorder and derealization. In 1954, researchers AbramHoffer and Humphry Osmond claimed that adrenochrome is a neurotoxic, psychotomimetic...
Hoffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: AbramHoffer (1917-2009), Canadian biochemist and psychiatrist Andrea C. Hoffer (born 1964)...
studies and observations using hallucinogenic drugs, collaborating with AbramHoffer and others. In 1952, Osmond related the similarity of mescaline to adrenaline...
The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine was established in 1967 by AbramHoffer. It publishes studies in nutritional and orthomolecular medicine. There...
deficiencies caused mental illness. Psychiatrists Humphry Osmond and AbramHoffer gave people having acute schizophrenic episodes high doses of niacin...
(PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Saul, Andrew W.; Dr. AbramHoffer. "AbramHoffer, M.D., PhD 50 Years of Megavitamin Research, Practice and Publication"...
using mescaline that he had been undertaking with colleagues, doctors AbramHoffer and John Smythies. In the epilogue to his novel The Devils of Loudun...
therapeutic potential to treat schizophrenia. In Canada, Humphry Osmond and AbramHoffer completed LSD studies as early as 1952. By the 1960s, controversies surrounding...
to patients. Much of this early work conducted by Humphry Osmond and AbramHoffer. The first LSD experiments were done on patients with chronic alcoholism...
orthomolecular psychiatry are ineffective. Orthomolecular psychiatry began with AbramHoffer and Humphry Osmond in the 1950s and was continued by Carl Pfeiffer, although...
with Ross McLean at Vancouver's Hollywood Hospital, with psychiatrists AbramHoffer and Humphry Osmond; with Myron Stolaroff at the International Federation...
translator, proprietor of the second branch of Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe AbramHoffer (M.D. 1949) – psychiatrist; proposed controversial megavitamin therapies...
CM (1951– ), geneticist Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1918–2017), physiologist AbramHoffer (1917–2009), physician and psychiatrist Charles Hollenberg OC (1930–2003)...
problems. His research brought him in contact with Carl Pfeiffer and AbramHoffer, both of whom claimed success in treating mental illness with nutritional...
arthritis with frequent, high doses of niacinamide. Rudolf Altschul and AbramHoffer applied large doses of the immediate release form of niacin (Vitamin...
Books. p. 94. ISBN 0-9640125-6-1. Zerden, Sheldon; Richard Passwater; AbramHoffer (2004). The Best of Health: The 100 Best Health Books. Warren H. Green...
selective pressures. In 1964, Julian Huxley, Ernst Mayr, Humphry Osmond and AbramHoffer theorized the first representation of the evolutionary aspects of schizophrenia...
Kenneth Hilliard, electrical engineer Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, physician AbramHoffer, psychiatrist John H. Hoffman, scientist John L. Holland, psychologist...
the Wind, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). (d. 2012) November 11 – AbramHoffer, orthomolecular psychiatrist (d. 2009) November 28 – Jacob Froese, politician...
British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. AbramHoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian...
was an enthusiastic advocate of the medical benefits of niacin. Dr. AbramHoffer had approached him to request that he recommend it to the senior citizens...
neuroscientist James E. Gill, geologist John R. Hendricks, mathematician AbramHoffer, biochemist, physician Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist Vit Klemes...
LSD. The research team also sought to replicate research conducted by AbramHoffer and Humphrey Osmond who had done earlier LSD research in Canada beginning...
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