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title: "Psych News Alert: Early Detection of Schizophrenia: The Time Is Now"
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 8/15/13 12:00 AM

# Early Detection of Schizophrenia: The Time Is Now

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**APA President Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D., is using the *Psychiatric News Alert* as a forum to reach APA members and other readers. Please send your comments to [pnupdate@psych.org](mailto:cbrown@psych.org).**

Medical research often takes a slow and unpredictable pace. The hours spent defining the question, setting up the experiment, and acquiring and then analyzing the data before getting to see the results makes for a long and arduous process. When you then add the time that it takes for new research findings to be translated into clinical practice, the rate of change in health care can be glacial. Psychiatry is certainly no exception to the seemingly snail’s pace of progress in health care.

But despite this pervasive pattern, research does periodically gain sufficient momentum to make inroads into clinical practice and move the field forward, as was the case with the introduction of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, lithium, community mental health, the development of time-limited forms of psychotherapy (for example, cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, and dialectical behavior treatment) and cognitive remediation.

I believe that we are at another game-changing moment in psychiatry with the rise of the early detection and intervention strategy (EDIS). This new therapeutic strategy and model of care could have a significant effect on our ability to treat and limit the morbidity of mental illness beginning with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

To read more, click [here](http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleID=1729380).

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