Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on November 28, 2007
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(2):247-248; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm133
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Dissecting the Heterogeneity of Schizophrenia Outcomes
2 Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Wacol, Queensland 4076, Australia
3 Queensland Brain Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Keywords: schizophrenia / outcome / epidemiology
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Goethe believed that data are the natural enemy of hypotheses. As new data accumulate, only a few lucky hypotheses survive the fresh empirical onslaught. Over time, most hypotheses eventually need amendment or outright rejection. Schizophrenia epidemiology has been a particularly fertile field in recent years, with new data leading to the revision of several long-standing dogmatic beliefs.1–3 The target article by Cohen et al4 questions another of the oft-repeated tenets of schizophrenia epidemiology. After close inspection of the schizophrenia outcome studies based in
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: 61-7-3271-8694, fax: 61-7-3271-8698, e-mail: john_mcgrath@qcmhr.uq.edu.au.