Comprehensive Understanding via Research and Education into SchiZophrenia

The CURESZ Foundation offers advocacy, information, advice, as well as educational and supportive resources to enhance the understanding of schizophrenia as a treatable neuropsychiatric illness.

CURESZ Foundation President Bethany Yeiser speaks about her remarkable journey from homelessness and severe schizophrenia into full and sustained recovery for the past 17 years, thanks to clozapine. Her memoir, Mind Estranged, was released in 2014. Dr. Henry A. Nasrallah, who helped Bethany achieve her complete recovery, is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience, and an internationally recognized expert on schizophrenia and related psychoses.

View information about cutting edge and underutilized medications, schizophrenia as a brain disorder, our treatment checklist and our Cognition Self-Assessment Rating Scale.

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Treatment Checklist

Use the CURESZ Treatment Checklist to explore proven treatments, set recovery goals, and partner effectively with your care team.

Clozapine Expert Panel

Connect with Clozapine experts near you and explore how this proven treatment can help when other antipsychotics fail.

Tardive Dyskinesia Expert Panel

Find Tardive Dyskinesia specialists and discover new treatment options now available to help manage medication side effects.

C-SARS Assessment

Self-administered assessment of one’s own brain cognitive functions

Problems in neurocognition and social cognition are common symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression. The Cognition Self-Assessment Rating Scale is a quick test to determine if a full battery of neurocognitive testing is needed.

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Programs

Check out some of the programs offered by CURESZ

Friendsz Caregiving Mentors

Connect with a network of family members and close friends of people who have schizophrenia.

CURESZ on Campus Clubs

CURESZ clubs find creative ways to reach out to the community and share a message of hope.

Ask the Doctors Events

Join an expert CURESZ Board Member to answer any questions you may have about brain disorders.

Medical Inquiry

The CURESZ Foundation has assembled a team of psychiatric physicians who are available to offer you medical information.

Advisory Council Support Group

Join the CURESZ Advisory Council meetings, led by a small group of recovered individuals with schizophrenia, as well as some moms and dads who have a loved one with schizophrenia.

Awakenings

Stories of Recovery and Emergence from Schizophrenia

Awakenings tells the stories of 28 remarkable “Survivors,” who are recovered and thriving despite schizophrenia, but their journeys have not been easy. Many suffered from homelessness, repeated hospitalizations, and countless medication trials before finding an effective and life-changing treatment plan. Once they received the optimal treatment, each of them experienced a personal, social and functional “awakening.” Today they have returned to their baseline, or nearly so, and live meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Video Archive

Explore our collection of video series featuring leading experts and individuals with lived experience. Topics include the current research in schizophrenia, treatment options like clozapine and injectable medications, managing side effects, addressing stigma, supporting caregivers, and more.

Meet the 45 Schizophrenia Survivors

Carlos A. Larrauri

Carlos A. Larrauri is a nurse practitioner who recently graduated with a law degree from the University of Michigan. He has served on the Board of Directors for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 23 years of age. Today, Mr. Larrauri aspires to interface clinical practice, health policy and research, to reduce health inequities for people living with mental illness.
“Schizophrenia Survivors” are people who are thriving despite a past diagnosis of schizophrenia, and want to offer hope to others.

Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith is a non-fiction author, speaker, peer counselor, and mother. She courageously fights the stigma of mental illness with her name attached to her lived experience. She is celebrating a decade in recovery.
“Schizophrenia Survivors” are people who are thriving despite a past diagnosis of schizophrenia, and want to offer hope to others.

Sarah Marzen

Sarah Marzen holds a physics bachelor’s degree from Caltech, a physics PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. Today, she works as a physics professor and researcher at the W. M. Keck Science Department at the Claremont Colleges.
“Schizophrenia Survivors” are people who are thriving despite a past diagnosis of schizophrenia, and want to offer hope to others.

Darrell Herrmann

Darrell’s life didn’t grind to a halt when he was diagnosed. The year after his hospitalization, he went back to college to study computer programming. He finished his degree two years later, and successfully worked as a computer programmer for the next eighteen years.
“Schizophrenia Survivors” are people who are thriving despite a past diagnosis of schizophrenia, and want to offer hope to others.

Rhea LaFleur

Rhea holds a BA in sociology from Columbia and a Master’s in Disability Studies from the City University of New York, where she graduated in May 2022. Currently, she does research on OCD and early psychosis at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and looks forward to applying to PhD programs.
“Schizophrenia Survivors” are people who are thriving despite a past diagnosis of schizophrenia, and want to offer hope to others.