Parental Mental Illness Raises Risk of Childhood Psychopathology

MADRID, May 21 (EUROPA PRESS) - A team of researchers, led by the Center for Biomedical Research Network (CIBER), has discovered that the descendants of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology, compared to…

Parental Mental Illness Raises Risk of Childhood Psychopathology

A new long-term study confirms that children of parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder face a higher risk of developing mental health issues compared to peers without parental psychiatric diagnoses. Over four years, researchers tracked 238 children and found distinct patterns of symptoms depending on whether a parent had schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.