The PRONIA study is a multi-centre EU study (EU Grant FP7-Health-2013) led in Basel by Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Borgwardt and conducted in collaboration with Prof. Dr. med. Anita Riecher-Rössler at the Adult Psychiatric Clinic (EPK). In addition to Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Finland and Australia are participating. PRONIA is a prospective, naturalistic, non-interventional, diagnostic and multi-centre study. It is conducted in three interconnected modules. Using various clinical and neuroscientific methods (for example MRI-based imaging), the project aims to identify tools that allow patients at high risk for psychosis to be detected significantly earlier than before. Reliable early detection would make it possible to select effective, individually tailored treatment strategies at an early stage.
The goal of the study is to develop prognostic procedures that allow a more reliable estimate than before of the actual risk in individual cases:
- the actual risk of a psychotic disorder in individuals with a clinical high-risk state,
- the actual risk of first-episode patients with psychosis or depression to develop a chronic course of their illness,
- the actual risk in both groups of suffering from lasting social and occupational impairment.
More information is available on the homepage of the PRONIA study.