Through targeted research protocols, the SRD delves into some of the many unanswered questions related to schizophrenia. The SRD program operates several speciality clinics, each designed to meet the needs of a specialized group. Clinical goals are to minimize TD, pseudo-parkinsonism, and akathisia in our patients. Research goals are to determine which treatments most effectively allow for TD to remit or, more importantly, to not cause it in the first place. The First Episode Psychosis Clinic provides intensive services to people who have only recently begun to experience psychotic symptoms.
Clinical goals are to minimize symptoms and prevent re-hospitalizations.
Patient and family education about the course, treatment, and management of psychotic illness are central to our program. Research goals are, primarily, to determine which combination of medical and psycho-educational treatment can best head off chronicity. The Eyetracking Program researches the minute but characteristic eye movement abnormalities that people with schizophrenia frequently have. These are the types of questions the Eyetracking Program is trying to answer. In this project, the differences between people with schizophrenia and their healthy family members are examined, both physiologically and psychologically.