Cumulative incidence of mental disorders among offspring of mothers with psychotic disorder

Obstetric complications as risk factors for schizophrenia spectrum psychoses in offspring of mothers with psychotic disorder.

BACKGROUND Obstetric complications have predicted future development of schizophrenia in previous studies, but they are also more common in mothers with schizophrenia. The aims of this study were to compare the occurrence of obstetric complications in children of mothers with schizophrenia spectrum psychoses and control children, and to investigate whether obstetric complications predicted chil...

Offspring of Mothers with Psychotic Disorder: Childhood Development and Adulthood Psychiatric Morbidity

Effect of emotion regulation training on depression, anxiety, and stress among mothers of children with mental disorders

Not only mental disorders do affect patients’ efficiency, but also they have adverse impacts on families of suffered patients through disrupting their performance. This study aimed to compare the effect of emotion regulation training based on Gross process model and Linehan's dialectical behavior therapy in depression, anxiety, and stress among mothers of children with mental disorders. This wa...

A case of Shared Psychotic Disorder with Deadly Outcome

Shared psychotic disorder also known as folie a dues is thought to occur in persons who live close together, so that delusions of the primarily ill patient are transferred to the partner. A case of shared paranoid psychotic disorder, with primary diagnosis of persecutory delusional disorder in the husband is described. The delusion and its consequent safety behaviors were so strong that led to ...

Childhood predictors of future psychiatric morbidity in offspring of mothers with psychotic disorder: results from the Helsinki High-Risk Study.

BACKGROUND The Helsinki High-Risk Study monitors women treated for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders in Helsinki mental hospitals before 1975, their offspring, and controls. AIMS To compare the development of high-risk and control group children, and investigate which factors predicted future psychiatric disorders. METHOD We examined information from childhood and school health record cards ...