Researchers from Duke University, the Dunedin (New Zealand) University School of Medicine, and the King’s College (London) Institute of Psychiatry find that in a study of 1037 children followed prospectively from birth to 38 years of age, “childhood psychotic symptoms were not specific to a diagnosis of schizophrenia in adulthood and thus future studies of early symptoms should be cautious in extrapolating findings only to this clinical disorder.” Results were published online January 12, 2013 by Psychological Medicine.
