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The long and winding road of schizophrenia research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

A Jablensky*
Affiliation:
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry (CCRN), The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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Abstract

Type
Abstracts from ‘Brainwaves’- The Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Meeting 2006, 6–8 December, Sydney, Australia
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Munksgaard

Research in schizophrenia is undergoing a farreaching qualitative change as novel technologies ranging from neuroimaging to functional genomics are now center-stage, tending to dislodge traditional clinical research and, to some extent, epidemiology. By placing the emerging new visions of schizophrenia research in a historical perspective (including a personal account of the World Health Organisation-led research in the 1980s), the author highlights both the pitfalls and promises of current attempts at understanding schizophrenia and argues for a more dynamic two-way interaction between laboratory scientists and clinicians.