ALLMedicine™ Childhood-onset Schizophrenia Center

Feb 1st, 2022 - Background: Schizophrenia at a young age deserves investigation because of the greater severity and burden of illness on individuals and health care than its adult onset. For this study, we included both childhood-onset schizophrenia and early-ons...

Sep 16th, 2021 - The study explored whether schizophrenia risk alleles of the DRD2 rs2514218 and ZNF804A rs1344706 polymorphisms also influenced the risk and severity of childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) and differentiated it from autism spectrum disorders (ASD)...

Jun 19th, 2021 - There is a lack of information on changes in hospital admission rates for childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS), or on patient characteristics, to inform clinical research and health service provision. To report age- and sex-specific incidence rates...

Mar 16th, 2021 - Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia (COS) is a very rare and severe psychiatric disorder defined by adult schizophrenia symptoms occurring before the age of 13. We report a microduplication in the 10q26.3 region including part of the Inositol Polyphosph...

Feb 11th, 2021 - Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia (COS) is a rare (1/40000), severe and neurodevelopmental form of schizophrenia beginning before 13 years of age. Little is known about comorbidities and specific COS-related disorders. Thus, the objective of our study...

Oct 12th, 2017 - A study of children and adolescents with very early onset by age 12 (COS) of DSM-III-R defined schizophrenia is examining the clinical, neurobiological, early neurodevelopmental, genetic, and clinical drug response characteristics of these cases, ...

Mar 4th, 2008 - Recent developments in the study of early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's syndrome have implicated an autoimmune etiology in a subset of these conditions, and renewed interest into the possibility of autoimmune pathophysio...

Apr 20th, 2007 - Autism and Childhood-onset Schizophrenia have been clearly defined as neuropsychiatric disorders since the studies of Kolvin and Rutter. In the early seventies the discussion on a possible overlap between the two types of disorders vanished, but n...

Dec 26th, 2018 - Childhood-onset schizophrenia is rare.[2] Late-onset cases (onset > 40 years of age) are more common in women than in men.[1] Suicide is a significant risk in individuals with schizophrenia. Approximately 5%-6% of individuals with schizophrenia di...

Feb 21st, 2015 - Some of the more disturbing behavioral symptoms to present are psychotic symptoms such as auditory or visual hallucination, delusions such as paranoia, or grossly disorganized thought content. Similar to the worry many families will have that a he.

Mar 7th, 2011 - March 7, 2011 — The Child Mind Institute has announced that Judith L. Rapoport, MD, and Jerome Kagan, PhD, are the recipients of the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Awards in recognition of their lifelong commitment to research in child mental health...

For now, Dr. Rapoport strongly discourages parents from spending money on brain imaging tests to diagnose ADHD.