InSTAR - Mission: 
                 “Reintegrating the Dis-integrated Self in Schizophrenia” 

The mission of InSTAR Program is to ensure a personalized clinical approach towards understanding and treating individuals with schizophrenia.  The acronym InSTAR (“instar”) also means a “stage of change”  reflecting the overarching goal of the InSTAR program to effect an “inclusive” transformation  with an emphasis on “individualization” of treatment approaches in schizophrenia.

InSTAR Clinics
InSTAR program comprises of several components that involves an integrated multidisciplinary team of experts from psychiatry, psychiatric social work, clinical psychology and yoga therapy.  The special services under the InSTAR program include:  Schizophrenia Clinic, Metabolic Clinic in Psychiatry, Family Interventions, Cognitive Therapies, Yoga Therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).  To facilitate early identification and intervention for psychosis – a specialized clinical module – namely – Objective Risk Assessment, Care and Liaison for Early Schizophrenia [ORACLES] – is available.

InSTAR Academics
With regards to training of professionals and manpower development, InSTAR program runs academic modules – InSTAR Academics.  For the first time in India, a post-doctoral fellowship program in Schizophrenia has been initiated to offer intense & specialized training for psychiatrists.

InSTAR Research
Translational Research is another important mandate of this program. The InSTAR team pursues cutting-edge clinical and neurobiological research studies examining patients with schizophrenia as well as their unaffected first-degree relatives; these research endeavours are facilitated through the Translational Psychiatry Laboratory.  The overarching focus of these studies is to evaluate the systems biology interactions in schizophrenia within the translational research paradigm.


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We, the team InSTAR, strive to offer personalized care to facilitate 
reintegrating the dis-integrated self in schizophrenia through
individualized & inclusive treatment approaches.