Updated the Schizophrenia Disease information web page at:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/family/disease.htm
Added the table of contents for easier nagivation of this page, plus added some of the most recent research about schizophrenia, and links to that research in more cases.
Just updated the Medications page - with latest info for accessing low cost/free medications, and also the new medications that are in Phase II or III trials. (Special thanks on this effort to input from Unk and Dan)
A good day today - I found a great article on E. Fuller Torrey at the Stanford University Magazine online (I forget what I was searching for) - but then decided that we needed a little more background on who the top researchers where in the field of schizophrenia - so I've added an entirely new section on "Schizophrenia Researchers" in the "Advanced Biology" area of the site at:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/research/
Check it out - a lot of interesting reading.
Also - I got an email back from one of the top researchers in "Schizophrenia Prevention today - Dr. Patrick McGorrey in Australia. He likes our prevention web page - and doesn't have too many edits. Its nice to see that we're following the research and its paying off - I encourage everyone to read it and print it out for other family members - this is really important stuff:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevent.htm
B.
This blog has been created as a sort of bulletin board to let you know of recent additions and changes to the web site, and to have a look into some of the things were planning to work on (that we'd appreciate volunteers to help with).
First of all - a quick look at what we've been doing recently - and then a look at what were're planning.
We've recently updated the "Advanced Biology" section of the web site - adding a good presentation on the biology of schizophrenia - with some good images of the biochemistry of the disease. Check it out!
We've recently added some new blogs - the Schizophrenia News blog, My Life's Adventure, A Daughter's Story, Silent Storms (from the wife of someone married to a man with schizophrenia).
We also are working on a number of other new blogs - and these blogs should be up on the site shortly. We'd love to have some more "International" participants in the blogs - to allow us more viewpoints on the treatment approaches and issues in countries other than the US. We'd also love to have some professionals (researchers, psychiatrists, students studying psychiatry/biology of brain disorders, teachers/professors of psychiatry, etc.). Please write us and join in the blogfest!
We've also recently added an entirely new section on the History of Schizophrenia - we think you'll find it interesting.
For future additions to the web site - we're working on getting public domain videos related to different aspects of schizophrenia (research/biology, treatments, success stories, etc.) and converting them into Internet format (Real Audio, Microsoft Media Format, etc.) so that we can put them onto the web site so that anyone can view them directly from their computer.
We need help in finding these videos (typically it involves contacting universities and other nonprofit or government agencies that may have produced these videos) and also in the conversion of them to digital format for the Internet. If you might be able to help in these efforts please send us an email and let us know.
Thanks!