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More than 40 percent of all people with schizophrenia end up in supervised group housing, nursing homes or hospitals. Another 6 percent end up in jail, usually for misdemeanors or petty crimes, while an equal proportion end up on the streets. Among researchers, schizophrenia has long been known as the “graveyard of psychiatric research.”
Schizophrenia is diagnosed 1.4 times more frequently in males than females, and typically appears earlier in men [7] —the peak ages of onset schizophrenia are 20–28 years for males and 26–32 years for females. [10] Early Onset schizophrenia in childhood, before the age of 13 can sometimes occur.
The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is a multi-disciplinary biomedical research program located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that studies the biological basis of psychiatric disease. The center was founded in 2007 with funding from philanthropists Ted and Vada Stanley. [1]
In the early 1970s, the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia was the subject of a number of controversies which eventually led to the operational criteria used today. It became clear after the 1971 US-UK Diagnostic Study that schizophrenia was diagnosed to a far greater extent in America than in Europe. [54]
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is two to three times as common in Latin America, Africa, and Europe as in Asia and Oceania. [7] Schizophrenia appears to be most common in Japan, Oceania, and Southeastern Europe and least common in Africa. [8] Bipolar disorder and panic disorder have very similar rates around the world. [9] [10]
It is an official journal of the Schizophrenia International Research Society and was established in 1988. The editor-in-chief is Matcheri Keshavan and the former editors are Henry Nasrallah (University of Cincinnati) and Lynn DeLisi (Harvard Medical School). According to Schizophrenia Research 's original mission statement, the journal is aimed at
Schizophrenia is a debilitating and often misunderstood disorder that affects up to 1% of the world's population. [1] Although schizophrenia is a heavily studied disorder, it has remained largely impervious to scientific understanding; epigenetics offers a new avenue for research, understanding, and treatment.
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America is a book by Robert Whitaker published in 2010 by Crown. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Whitaker asks why the number of Americans who receive government disability for mental illness approximately doubled since 1987.