Objectives of the Presentation are to:

• Review the potential clinical course of early psychosis and how patients are assessed to be at ultra-high risk for psychosis
• Discuss how duration of untreated psychosis may impact treatment outcomes
• Explore disease and functional trajectories in early mental illness 
• Review barriers to treatment in early serious mental illness 
• Discuss coordinated specialty care and clinical data examining its effectiveness

Objectives of the Presentation are to:

• Review the diagnostic criteria and symptoms of schizophrenia
• Explore schizophrenia as a spectrum disorder
• Examine the pathophysiology of schizophrenia
• Assess the potential contribution of genetics to the development of schizophrenia
• Evaluate how environmental factors and environment-gene interactions may impact the emergence of schizophrenia