Started in 1995, Schizophrenia.com is a leading web community dedicated to providing high quality information, support and education to the family members, caregivers and individuals who's lives have been impacted by schizophrenia.

The site is managed by a group of about 10 independent volunteers around the world - all of whom are either family members (with sons & daughters, brothers and sisters, or parents who have suffered from schizophrenia) or people who have schizophrenia. While none of us are mental health professionals, we are very familiar with the disease both through direct personal experience and extensive and reading on the topic. We rely upon what we believe are good sources of scientifically accurate materials relating to schizophrenia and frequently consult with an ever growing group of schizophrenia researchers who act as unofficial advisors to the site - these schizophrenia researchers who help on an unofficial basis by answering our questions and occasionally providing feedback on different areas of the site include:

• Dr. Irv Gottesman - Professor Emeritas of University of Virginia
• E. Fuller Torrey - Stanley Medical Research Institute and Treatment Advocacy Center
• Dr. Ann Pulver - Johns Hopkins Medical School
• Dr. Tonmoy Sharma - Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
• And many others...

While we greatly appreciate the occasional input from these experts, if you find any mistakes, misspellings or typographical errors on the web site they are, or course, entirely our responsibility. We are always looking for additional sources of expert opinion - and welcome volunteers in this area.

We have no formal affiliations with any other mental health-related organizations or companies. We don't advocate any one program of treatment, but try to provide strong, science-based information (both the good and the bad news) on all the options available so that people can make the best informed decisions for themselves and their families. We avoid simplistic answers because we know from experience that this is a very complex disease. We do not claim to provide any medical recommendations at this site.

Schizophrenia.com is a place where family members, friends, people with schizophrenia, researchers, and other professionals to get together and share information and experiences in the common battle against this disease.

Schizophrenia.com is a nonprofit organization that is registered as a project for the Tides Center, an independent nonprofit organization registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) public charity. The ongoing support and development of the web site is funded via individual donations and limited advertising on the site. No sponsors of the site (either donors, or advertisers) have any influence in the content of the site.

This web community was founded in 1995 in memory of John Chiko, who suffered from schizophrenia, but we are dedicated to improving the lives of all individuals and families suffering from schizophrenia, and in speeding the research progress towards a cure.

Following are the key objectives of this site:

Primary Objective

To quickly improve the lives of families suffering from Schizophrenia by providing high quality (scientifically-based) information, support and education, research and discussions on the subject.

Secondary Objectives

• To more widely and quickly disseminate schizophrenia research and information so that treatment techniques, medications or cures can more rapidly identified and adopted so that the lives of people with schizophrenia are more quickly improved.
• To improve communications between the different schizophrenia "stakeholders" - i.e. the schizophrenia research and the support organizations and the families around the world suffering from schizophrenia, so as to improve the understanding and flow of mutually beneficial information between all of the groups.
• To create a comprehensive Schizophrenia Information service, and to make this service available to as broad an audience as possible, so as to maximize the benefit that this information will have to people around the world.

This is the overall goal of this web site - to provide valuable and accurate information on the brain disease known as schizophrenia. We hope that it has provided some value to you.