New York, Aug 24 (Ians) If your kid is hearing voices coming from the walls, and is seeing ghosts and aliens in trees, such hallucinations or psychotic symptoms in children may have a genetic cause, a new study has revealed.
Many children have behaviours that can seem like psychosis, like having an imaginary friend. But true psychosis is distressing to children and outside their control.
The research team from Boston Children’s Hospital in the US said that the study findings make a strong case for “chromosomal microarray testing in any child or adolescent diagnosed with psychosis”.
Through the Early Psychosis Investigation Center (EPICenter) at Boston Children’s, Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich and his colleagues genetically tested 137 children and adolescents with what’s known as early-onset psychosis, or psychotic symptoms appearing before the age of 18.
Based on their findings, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, they urge chromosomal microarray testing in any child with psychotic symptoms.
Many children have behaviours that can seem like psychosis, like having an imaginary friend. But true psychosis is distressing to children and outside their control.
The research team from Boston Children’s Hospital in the US said that the study findings make a strong case for “chromosomal microarray testing in any child or adolescent diagnosed with psychosis”.
Through the Early Psychosis Investigation Center (EPICenter) at Boston Children’s, Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich and his colleagues genetically tested 137 children and adolescents with what’s known as early-onset psychosis, or psychotic symptoms appearing before the age of 18.
Based on their findings, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, they urge chromosomal microarray testing in any child with psychotic symptoms.
- 8/24/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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