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Early interventions in risk groups for schizophrenia: what are we waiting for?

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Sommer, Iris E, Bearden, Carrie E, van Dellen, Edwin, Breetvelt, Elemi J, Duijff, Sasja N, Maijer, Kim, van Amelsvoort, Therese, de Haan, Lieuwe +5 more·2016·npj Schizophrenia

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Intervention strategies in adolescents at ultra high-risk (UHR) for psychosis are promising for reducing conversion to overt illness, but have only limited impact on functional outcome. Recent studies suggest that cognition does not further decline during the UHR stage. As social and cognitive impairments typically develop before the first psychotic episode and even years before the UHR stage, prevention should also start much earlier in the groups at risk for schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Early intervention strategies could aim to improve stress resilience, optimize brain maturation, and prevent or alleviate adverse environmental circumstances. These strategies should urgently be tested for efficacy: the prevalence of ~1% implies that yearly ~22 in every 100,000 people develop overt symptoms of this illness, despite the fact that for many of them—e.g., children with an affected first-degree family member or carriers of specific genetic variants—increased risk was already identifiable early in life. Our current ability to recognize several risk groups at an early age not only provides an opportunity, but also implies a clinical imperative to act. Time is pressing to investigate preventive interventions in high-risk children to mitigate or prevent the development of schizophrenia and related psychiatric disorders.

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Sommer, I. E., Bearden, C. E., van Dellen, E., Breetvelt, E. J., Duijff, S. N., Maijer, K., van Amelsvoort, T., de Haan, L., Gur, R. E., Arango, C., Díaz-Caneja, C. M., Vinkers, C. H., & Vorstman, J. A.
Affiliations
  • University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
Corresponding author
Vorstman, Jacob AS
Venue
npj Schizophrenia
Published
2016-03-09
Volume
2
Issue
1
Pages
16003-16003
ISSN
2334-265X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2326798018
Cited by
140
References
121
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 3 · 2013: 1
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2.52
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journal article
Language
en
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Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH101724)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Keywords
clinical high risk for psychosis, early intervention, prevention, adolescents, transition to psychosis, functional outcome, cognitive decline, social dysfunction, stress resilience, brain maturation, family history (medicine), genetic risk variants, vulnerable children

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