Schizophrenia Research
Volume 108, Issue 1 , Pages 182-190 , March 2009

The International Study on General Practitioners and Early Psychosis (IGPS)

  • Andor E. Simon

      Affiliations

    • Specialised Early Psychosis Outpatient Clinic for Adolescents and Young Adults, Psychiatric Outpatient Services Bruderholz, Bruderholz, Switzerland
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Specialized Early Psychosis Outpatient Clinic for Adolescents and Young Adults, Psychiatric Outpatient Services, Department of Psychiatry, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 61 425 45 45; fax: +41 61 425 45 46.
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  • Helen Lester

      Affiliations

    • National Primary Care Research, and Development Centre University of Manchester, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Lynda Tait

      Affiliations

    • National Primary Care Research, and Development Centre University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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  • Emanuel Stip

      Affiliations

    • Programme jeune adulte LH Lafontaine Hospital, University of Montreal, Canada
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  • Paul Roy

      Affiliations

    • Champlain District Regional First Episode Psychosis Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • Gretchen Conrad

      Affiliations

    • Champlain District Regional First Episode Psychosis Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • Jennifer Hunt

      Affiliations

    • Champlain District Regional First Episode Psychosis Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • Irvin Epstein

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Canada
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  • Tor K. Larsen

      Affiliations

    • Stavanger University Hospital, Regional Centre for Clinical Research in Psychosis, Stavanger, Norway
    • Department of Clinical Medicine, Section Psychiatry, University of Bergen, Norway
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  • Paul Amminger

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Neuropsychiatrie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • David Holub

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Mental Health Care Development, Prague, Czech Republic
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  • Barbora Wenigová

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Mental Health Care Development, Prague, Czech Republic
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  • Mark Turner

      Affiliations

    • Totara House Early Intervention for Psychosis Service, Christchurch, New Zealand
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  • Gregor E. Berger

      Affiliations

    • ORYGEN Research Centre, Parkville, Australia
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  • Colin O'Donnell

      Affiliations

    • ORYGEN Research Centre, Parkville, Australia
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  • Daniel Umbricht

      Affiliations

    • Translational Medicine Neuroscience, Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland

Received 16 April 2008 ,Revised 6 October 2008 ,Accepted 3 November 2008.

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PII: S0920-9964(08)00508-2

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.11.004

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 108, Issue 1 , Pages 182-190 , March 2009

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