The Schizophrenia Bulletin is an experimental publication now being issued on a quarterly basis by the National Institute of Mental Health. Its purpose is to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of information about schizophrenia and to provide abstracts of the recent literature on the subject. To date, eight experimental issues have been published, each focusing on a major theme—for example, the biochemistry of schizophrenia, twin studies, childhood schizophrenia and autism, and psychosocial treatment approaches. The current issue (no. 8) features part t of an exhaustive review entitled, ‘Children at Risk: The Search for the Antecedents of Schizophrenia’. In addition to review articles focusing on a major theme, the Bulletin features articles reporting original observations in laboratory or clinical research, short reports of preliminary or negative research results, theoretical dissertations and other essays, and news items describing research and training programmes or reporting professional activities in schizophrenia.