The socioeconomic burden of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism is very high. An EU initiative sought to harmonise research on the causes of these diseases to improve diagnosis and therapeutic tools.
The EU-funded TRIP (Translational research into psychiatric disorders: Genetics, genomics and neurobiology of psychosis and autism) project worked to accelerate biomedical and clinical research into mental illness.
Further details: A global initiative to advance psychiatric research