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Editorial
. 2022 Feb;63(2):241-244.
doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13438. Epub 2021 Jun 4.

Editorial Perspective: Psychosis risk in adolescence - outcomes, comorbidity, and antipsychotics

Andrea Raballo  1   2 , Michele Poletti  3 , Antonio Preti  4
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Editorial

Editorial Perspective: Psychosis risk in adolescence - outcomes, comorbidity, and antipsychotics

Andrea Raballo et al. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

Research on Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis (CHR-P) has led to a vigorous change in the field of early detection in psychiatry and is gradually expanding its focus toward early development. The Annual Research Review on psychosis risk in adolescents (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62, 2020 and 657) offers a wide-angle meta-analytical picture of such emerging trends in all areas relevant to CHR-P Research, that is, detection, prognosis, and intervention. This editorial perspective is meant to expand the clinical and conceptual reach of these meta-analytic findings in relation to (a) the influence of age on transition rate and scalability of the early detection model across the child-adolescent vs adult periods; (b) potential latent heterogeneity of the pathogenetic trajectories leading to CHR-P as suggested by comorbid psychopathologies; (c) controversial (or at least problematic) prognostic significance of antipsychotic exposure in CHR-P subjects, especially in children and adolescents.

Keywords: Psychosis; adolescence; childhood; clinical high-risk state for psychosis; evidence; first-episode; prediction; prevention; psychosis risk; schizophrenia.

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