McNeil´s research today

Strategy for risk research
Over the years McNeil´s strategy for risk research has developed to a multifaceted approach including integrated investigations of representative patient samples, genetic high risk populations, identical twins and populationbased register information on anonymous patients suffering from schizophrenia and other types of psychosis.

A research model inspired by navigation
His present strategy is to investigate different issues and phenomena in different populations and different contexts; a strategy McNeil describes as "triangulation". The research model is inspired by navigation, where a measurement of the angle to several objects provides better information on one´s exact position.

A research group with international contacts
McNeil´s research group in Malmö (together with senior lecturer E Cantor-Graae) is now a "Stanley Foundation Research Center", sponsored by Stanley Foundation/NAMI in Bethesda, USA. Centra sponsored by Stanley can also be found at other locations in Sweden; in Gothenburg (Nobel-prize laureate Arvid Carlsson) and at the Karolinska Institutet (Krister Kristersson). McNeil´s research group has many strong international connections, and an active cooperation with colleagues in Australia, Denmark, Ireland, Canada and the USA.

Schizophrenia research- trauma and injuries in early childhood
The Malmö group participated in Dr. Fuller Torrey´s investigation of schizophrenia and manodepressive disease among identical twins. In that project, the Malmö group was responsible for investigating perinatal trauma and its relation to congenital malformations, neurological abnormalities and brain morphology among ill and healthy twins. The contribution of the Malmö group to schizophrenia research, has been focused on trauma and injuries early in life, and on the development of methods to measure these trauma and injuries.