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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on May 19, 2008
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(4):591-594; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbn046
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Making Progress in Schizophrenia Research

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Psychiatry is a young, still developing science, that must, against sharp opposition, gradually achieve the position it deserves according to its scientific and practical importance. There is no doubt that it will achieve this position—for it has at its disposal the same weapons which have served the other branches of medicine so well: clinical observation, the microscope and experimentation. Emil Kraepelin (p. 8)1

Emil Kraepelin wanted to make progress in psychiatry. He pioneered psychiatric research to improve the status of psychiatry within the field of medicine. His optimism continues to shape psychiatry today.2–4 There is increasing concern, however, that Kraepelin did not lead us in the right direction. Most authors have focused on Kraepelin's dichotomy of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as the Achilles heel of his diagnostic system.5,6 Some have argued that there is no clear point of rarity between these 2 diagnoses.. . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Kraepelin's Research
 

   The Evolution of Kraepelin's Dementia Praecox Concept
 

   The Kraepelinian Model of Psychiatric Research
 

   Influence of the Kraepelinian Model on Current Research
 

   A New Research Agenda for Psychiatry?
 

   How to Make Progress?
 

Stephan Heckers1,2
2 Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 1601 23rd Avenue South, Room 3060, Nashville, TN 37212

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: 615-322-2665, fax: 615-343-8400, e-mail: stephan.heckers@vanderbilt.edu.


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