Mission
The Commonwealth Research Center (CRC), based at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) and under the direction of Larry J. Seidman, Ph.D., is a program of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry (HMS) and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH). The CRC was created in 1988 at the MMHC as an expression of a commitment by the Massachusetts DMH to rekindle its long-standing support for the cutting edge quality of clinical research on schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders that had long been a hallmark of MMHC. The specific mission of the CRC, as articulated by the DMH, is to stimulate research on the biological basis of psychosis and the optimal treatment for severe mental illness. The CRC is investigating the underlying mechanisms and the manifestations of psychotic illnesses and the optimal treatments for persons with severe and persistent mental illness including the early intervention and prevention of psychotic disorders.
