Competence Network Schizophrenia

1. Funding phase

Projects: 01GI9932 - 01GI9936, 01GI9939, 01GI9942
Funding period: 01.09.1999 - 28.02.2003
Volume: 8,2 mio EUR

2. Funding phase

Projects: 01GI0232 - 01GI0236, 01GI0239, 01GI0242
Funding period:  01.03.2003 - 28.02.2005
Volume: 4,76 mio EUR

3. Funding phase

Projects: 01GI0501 - 01GI0504
Funding period:   01.03.2005 - 30.06.2011
Volume:1,5 mio EUR

Total funding

Funding period:   01.09.1999 - 30.06.2011
Volume: 14,46 mio EUR

Network speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaebel
Heinrich-Heine-Universität/Rheinische Kliniken Düsseldorf
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Bergische Landstraße 2
40629 Düsseldorf
Tel.: +49 211 922-2770
E-Mail: info@kompetenznetz-schizophrenie.de

Schizophrenia ranks among the top 10 causes of disability in developed countries worldwide. The severity of the symptoms and long-lasting, chronic pattern of schizophrenia often cause a high degree of disability. Schizophrenia is characterized by profound disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting the most fundamental human attributes: language, thought, perception, affect, and sense of self. The array of symptoms may include psychotic manifestations, such as hallucinations and delusions which, separately or in conjunction with impaired occupa-tional or social functioning connect to the severeness of the disease. The major objective of this schizophrenia research network is the appropriation of scientific requirements to optimize prevention, acute and long-term treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenia in different stages of the illness and thereby to improve course and outcome of the illness along with considering cost-benefit aspects. At the same time, long-term communication structures between research, service, consumers, and the public are to be established.

The Competence Network Schizophrenia is part of the funding measure "Competence Networks in Medicine".
For more detailed information regarding the Competence Network Schizophrenia see: http://www.kompetenznetz-schizophrenie.de/.