Title: New psychology study finds people typically experience shifting mental disorders over their lifespan
Headings: New psychology study finds people typically experience shifting mental disorders over their lifespan
New psychology study finds people typically experience shifting mental disorders over their lifespan
Content: a) age of onset, (b) duration of symptom history, and (c) number of different kinds of comorbid disorder symptoms. People with younger onset of symptoms, more years with symptoms, and more different kinds of symptoms tended to be the same people. These people also had more indicators of poor brain health at age 3, steeper child-to-adult cognitive decline, and older brain-age on structural MRI at midlife,” Caspi explained. “This finding cautions against over-reliance on etiological theories, research hypotheses, and clinical protocols that are specific to one diagnosis. Studying disorders one at a time does not accurately represent most patients’ lived experience of shifting across disorder families.” “Studying one disorder may mislead about specificity and hide transdiagnostic discoveries from view. There is a need for measurement instruments that capture shared liability to shifting disorders across the life course in order to make discoveries more efficiently. There is also a need to develop transdiagnostic treatments that can prevent many different conditions,” Caspi said. The study, “ Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study “, was authored by Avshalom Caspi, Renate M. Houts, Antony Ambler, Andrea Danese, Maxwell L. Elliott, Ahmad Hariri, HonaLee Harrington, Sean Hogan, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Line J. Hartmann Rasmussen, Aaron Reuben, Leah Richmond-Rakerd, Karen Sugden, JasminWertz, Benjamin S. Williams, and Terrie E. Moffitt.