Someone’s search term schizophrenia gestation alerts us to several new studies about the influence of prenatal factors, especially infection, on the risk of psychosis during childhood or adulthood.
RESULT: Targeting Cognition in Schizophrenia Research: From Etiology to Treatment
American Journal of Psychiatry
The second half of this editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry points out a new study that examines prenatal exposure to infection (specifically, influenza and Toxoplasma) as a cause of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia—one of the first to do so.
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We found the study mentioned in the editorial using the term maternal infection schizophrenia executive function.
RESULT: Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Infection and Executive Dysfunction in Adult Schizophrenia
American Journal of Psychiatry
Another result, a registry study from Finland, posits an interaction between prenatal infection, heredity and schizophrenia.
RESULT: Evidence for an Interaction Between Familial Liability and Prenatal Exposure to Infection in the Causation of Schizophrenia
American Journal of Psychiatry
Scroll a little farther down for a British study that finds a link between impaired prenatal growth and symptoms of psychosis at age 12.
RESULT: Association of measures of fetal and childhood growth with non-clinical psychotic symptoms in 12-year-olds: the ALSPAC cohort
British Journal of Psychiatry
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What have other clinicians been finding on SearchMedica?
Search term: Tourette
The first prevalence study in the US finds Tourette syndrome in about three of every 1,000 children—usually mild but often comorbid with ADHD or OCD.
RESULT: Prevalence of Diagnosed Tourette Syndrome in Persons Aged 6-17 Years: United States, 2007
MMWR
Search term: traumatic neurosis
A new review alerts doctors to the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in people who have PTSD, especially firefighters, police officers and, of course, soldiers.
RESULT: Is posttraumatic stress disorder related to development of heart disease? An update
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
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