iPSYCH is a national project established in 2012.
The management team that founded the project consisted of:
The purpose of iPSYCH is to find the causes of and create the basis for better treatment and prevention of autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (formerly manic-depressive disorder) and depression.
By studying genes and risk factors in over 130,000 Danes with and without mental illness, we shed light on the interaction between heredity and environment, which in some people results in the development of mental illness.
The research focuses on disorders from angles ranging from genes to cells and animal models to population studies, from foetuses to adult patients, and from causes to symptoms.
Today, iPSYCH is one of the world's largest studies of the genetic and environmental causes of mental disorders.