ont face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Narrator: This is Science Today. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that less than half of the more than two million Americans with schizophrenia do not take their anti-psychotic medications on a regular basis. Delip Jeste, who led the study, says this results in higher hospitalization costs and for patients and caregivers, less quality of life.

Jeste: What is needed is really a partnership between the research community and the public mental health system. And our study was actually an example of such a partnership. This was based at our center, which is funded by NIH and it was a partnership of UCSD with the San Diego County public mental health system.

Narrator: Jeste says once researchers find that certain therapies work, they need to get that information out to real world practice.

Jeste: What has happened in the past, typically researchers have done studies that are restricted to research settings. Researchers need to work with clinicians who are practicing out there in the community.

Narrator: For Science Today, I’m Larissa Branin.