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SUMMARY:Predicting Risk of Serious Mental Disorders Within Adolescent Psyc
 hiatry Services – Results From Nationwide Register-Based Studies - Dr. U
 lla Lång
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CONTACT:Oliver Knight
DESCRIPTION:Early detection of elevated psychosis risk and early intervent
 ion are key goals in the treatment of psychotic disorders. Given the peak 
 onset age of psychotic disorders in early adulthood\, detection and preven
 tive interventions should ideally occur earlier in life\, particularly for
  neurodevelopmental disorders such as psychotic disorders.\n\nIn a recent 
 nationwide Finnish study\, we found that adolescents in specialist psychia
 try services have a significantly high risk of developing psychosis. Of th
 em\, 15% were diagnosed with a psychotic or bipolar disorder by age 28. Ev
 en more strikingly\, we found that of all first psychosis and bipolar diso
 rder cases in the population\, as many as 47% occurred among individuals w
 ho had attended adolescent psychiatry services. This suggests enormous unt
 apped potential to predict psychotic disorders within this patient group. 
 The next key step towards effective psychosis prediction among adolescent 
 psychiatry patients is to find ways to identify individuals who have parti
 cularly high psychosis risk later in life.\n\nIn the talk I will describe 
 a register-based study where we focused on Finnish adolescents attending p
 sychiatric services (N=26\,195) and looked at a range of clinical and soci
 o-demographic factors as predictors of psychotic disorders in adulthood. I
  will also discuss other related studies that the team at the University o
 f Edinburgh has been working on.
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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