Severe mental disorders represent huge costs to society in terms of pain and distress of the affected patients and their families. Severe mental disorders, indeed, cause a heavy burden due to morbidity and premature mortality, conditioning an increased risk of unemployment, infirmity, unsafe and unhealthy habits, and representing the main factor for suicide. The project Neurobiology of the Psychoses.

The process of recovery from schizophrenia detailed. Getting off of the prescription pills. In 1996, at the age of 30, I was diagnosed schizophrenic and prescribed to take those medications involuntarily. I learned that there are others who consider neuroleptics dangerous and even unnecessary. I plan each week to detail the progress of the week previous.

Karayiorgou and Gogos Labs - Psychiatry, Physiology and Neuroscience. Psychiatric disorders remain a major challenge for the 21st century medicine and neuroscience. Our laboratories have developed a collaborative, integrated, multi-disciplinary program aimed at elucidating the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric disease, with main focus on schizophrenia. De novo gene mutations highlight patterns of genetic and neural complexity in schizophrenia read here.