Association between Childhood Psychiatric Disorders and Psychotic Experiences in Adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study

Adolescent psychotic experiences (PEs) are common, and are associated with both psychotic and non-psychotic illnesses. In order to examine psychopathological and cognitive antecedents of adolescent PEs, we have conducted a longitudinal study of common childhood psychiatric disorders and subsequent adolescent PEs in the population-based prospective ALSPAC birth cohort.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - May 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Caroline Siebald, Golam M. Khandaker, Stanley Zammit, Glyn Lewis, Peter B. Jones Source Type: research