Psychotic Illness

In children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, evidence of motor impairment skills may indicate neurodevelopmental vulnerability for psychosis.

Schizophrenia subgroups with distinct cognitive development trajectories can be determined using adult cognitive data, according to study findings published in American Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers noted that these subgroups have significantly different profiles of cognitive, academic and psychiatric genetic influence.