How change comes: Translating biological research into care

Abstract

Thousands of papers have been published on the biological associations with psychosis yet this has had a limited impact on the routine clinical care of people with psychosis. Cognitive dysfunction, genetics and neuroimaging are the research areas likely to integrate into clinical practice in psychosis most rapidly. Clinical and academic collaborations in partnership with patients and carers are necessary to make progress, along with an acceptance that not all new approaches will necessarily prove effective in the longer term. Most discoveries do not just jump from bench to bedside, but require active interactions between scientists and clinicians.