Research published last year by Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, a psychiatrist at the Duke University Medical Centre in America, may not only provide a test for schizophrenia, but also help with its treatment.

Because schizophrenia is more complex, so few effective treatments, here are some of the more useful family support therapy can help patients reduce symptoms.

With treatments for schizophrenia currently capable of addressing only symptoms, the findings raise hopes of getting closer to a mechanism of the illness that could be more effectively targeted.