The association between changes in depression/anxiety and trajectories of psychotic-like experiences over a year in adolescence

Recent cross-sectional studies suggest that psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are associated with depression and anxiety in adolescents. While longitudinal studies have observed that adolescents suffer more severe symptoms of depression/anxiety when PLEs persist, it remains unclear whether depression/anxiety worsens or improves with PLE emergence or remission, respectively. In this prospective school-based study, we investigated the association between longitudinal changes in depression/anxiety and one-year PLE trajectories in adolescence.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - October 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Syudo Yamasaki, Satoshi Usami, Ryo Sasaki, Shinsuke Koike, Shuntaro Ando, Yuko Kitagawa, Misato Matamura, Masako Fukushima, Hiromi Yonehara, Jerome Clifford Foo, Atsushi Nishida, Tsukasa Sasaki Source Type: research