Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE): A Research Project of the NIMH
RAISE is a large-scale, NIMH research project that seeks to fundamentally change the way schizophrenia is treated by developing and testing innovative and coordinated intervention approaches in the early stages of the illness when symptoms may be most responsive to treatment. RAISE is being funded by NIMH with additional support from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Press Release
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is launching a large-scale research project to explore whether using early and aggressive treatment, individually targeted and integrating a variety of different therapeutic approaches, will reduce the symptoms and prevent the gradual deterioration of functioning that is characteristic of chronic schizophrenia. More >>
Backgrounder
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1.1 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. Symptoms usually develop in men in their late teens or early twenties and in women in their twenties and thirties. In rare cases, schizophrenia can be diagnosed in childhood. More >>
