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Schizophrenia

$175M Awarded to Schizophrenia Research since 1987

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Discovery Articles

New Technique Lets Researchers Watch Human Brain Circuits Begin to Wire-Up

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Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2017

New Technique Lets Researchers Watch Human Brain Circuits Begin to Wire-Up

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Cerebellum in Cognitive Defects in Schizophrenia

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Posted: Monday, June 26, 2017

Study Uncovers Role for Cerebellum in Cognitive Defects in Schizophrenia

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New Class of Drugs Shows Promise for the Treatment of Schizophrenia

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Posted: Monday, June 5, 2017

New Class of Drugs Shows Promise for the Treatment of Schizophrenia in Animal Models

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Weaker Brain Connections in Patients Who Did Not Receive Prompt Treatment for Psychosis

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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Study Reveals Weaker Brain Connections in Patients Who Did Not Receive Prompt Treatment for Psychosis

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Key Figures

3.5 million adults

3.5 million adults (1.1%) of the US Adult population live with schizophrenia*

* Source: National Institute of Mental Health

21 million

More than 21 million people worldwide are affected by schizophrenia*

* Source: World Health Organization (WHO)

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Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D.
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Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D.

Professor of Neurobiology

Yale University School of Medicine

2015 Goldman-Rakic Prizewinner for Cognitive Neuroscience Research

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Prefrontal Cortical Circuits in Schizophrenia: Molecular Vulnerabilities, and Clues for Treatments

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Huda Akil, Ph.D. - Brain & behavior research expert on depression
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Huda Akil, Ph.D.

Co-Director and Research Professor, The Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

Distinguished University Professor and Quarton Professor of Neurosciences

University of Michigan

2007 Goldman-Rakic Prizewinner for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience

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In your work with the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Research Consortium, have you uncovered any new genes that you think might be related to mental illnesses besides major depression?

Donor Stories

Research Gives People Hope

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Research Gives People Hope: Multiple family illnesses inspire a couple's life-long commitment to the mental health cause

No one knows better than the Garatt family how far research in mental illness has come – and how far it still has to go. Thirty-three years ago, when Sean Garatt was diagnosed with schizophrenia, his mother, Marcia, was told that she was the cause. The “bad mothering” theory eventually collapsed...

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Inexpressible Gratitude

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Inexpressible Gratitude

A mother beams as her son, lives with Asperger's syndrome and schizophrenia, courageously lives his dream to become an inventor John Atherton is a 53-year-old electronics whiz and inventor living in Portland, Oregon. At the time of this writing, he was busy preparing a prototype of one of his...

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An Agonizing Journey and a “Blessing”

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An Agonizing Journey and a “Blessing”

A Family Works to Improve Crisis Intervention and Support Research Janet and Donald Boardman, Sr., remember with chilling clarity the last time their son Donald, Jr., had to be hospitalized against his will. “When the sheriffs came,” Janet says, “he was in our back yard, very ill, very angry, and...

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