This year marks the 30th anniversary of Napa producer Staglin Family Vineyard founding its One Mind organisation. The charity’s work has led to some truly watershed moments in brain health research. STAGLIN FAMILY Vineyard is a small, family-owned and operated winery in Rutherford, California, which produces wines in very limited quantities, made from grapes grown organically on its 28- hectare, solar-powered property. In addition to their focus on producing world class wines, they are also dedicated to advocacy for mental health research. Husband-and-wife team Garen and Shari Staglin, who are co-founders of Staglin Family Vineyard, began sprinting rather than walking down the path of brain health research after their son Brandon had what they describe as “a psychotic breakdown” while studying at university in 1990. The incident led to Brandon receiving a diagnosis for schizophrenia, at which point the Staglins felt they had two choices. “We could run away from the problem or run towards it,” Garen tells the drinks business. “And we thought ‘why hide this human condition?’” Prior to Brandon’s diagnosis, the couple confess, they “knew nothing” about brain science. “We jumped headfirst into the scientific community. We wanted to learn why Brandon got sick and try to figure out ways to prevent it from happening to other families,” Garen says. And so the first steps were taken, which would eventually lead to the founding of charitable organisation One Mind, which would propel the Staglins into three decades at the forefront of cutting-edge neuropsychiatric research. Early on,
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