The non-specific nature of mental health and structural brain outcomes following childhood trauma

CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that CT poses a transdiagnostic risk factor for mental health disorders, possibly related to depressive symptoms. While differences in the quality of CT exposure exist, diagnostic differentiation was not possible suggesting a multi-factorial pathogenesis.PMID:34225834 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291721002439

Source: Psychological Medicine - July 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Theresa K Haidl Dennis M Hedderich Marlene Rosen Nathalie Kaiser Mauro Seves Thorsten Lichtenstein Nora Penzel Julian Wenzel Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic Anne Ruef David Popovic Frauke Schultze-Lutter Katharine Chisholm Rachel Upthegrove Raimo K R Salokangas C Source Type: research