title: Researching psychiatry in Western Australia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide an overview of the development, approaches and main research projects of the Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry (CCRN) in Perth, Western Australia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Discursive.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Underlying concepts, methods and selected findings of recent research into the neurobiology and epidemiology of schizophrenia, autism and other psychotic disorders are presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CCRN, one of Australia's youngest centres of psychiatric research, has invested fruitfully in research areas such as molecular genetics, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, behavioural pharmacology, diagnostic assessment procedures and record linkage epidemiology.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Research In Neuropsychiatry, University of Western Australia School of Psychiatry and Clincal Neurosciences, Mt Claremont, Australia. assen@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: Assen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jablensky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology