Still few health professionals, even specialized in paediatrics, know that schizophrenia can appear in childhood. 464075768/Vikky Mir – stock.adobe.com
ANALYSIS – Some children, by their genetics or their background, are at high risk and, if it is impossible to know when they will switch or even if they will actually switch to schizophrenia, we must be a little more attentive to some signs.
Far from the “clap of thunder in a serene sky” which was described until the 1980s to describe the onset of schizophrenia, specialists now know that it is revealed, in 70% of cases, by discreet signs – the prodrome – before the first critical psychotic episode that appears in late adolescence. “However, it can occur quite frequently before the age of 18 and even, in a small minority of cases, before the age of 13, underline the Pr Olivier Bonnot, head of the child and adolescent psychiatry department at Nantes University Hospital. For these early forms, it is necessary to be attentive to behaviors and unusual psychic symptoms. Unfortunately, still few health professionals, even specialized in paediatrics, know that schizophrenia can appear in childhood.
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Some children, by their genetics or their background, are at high risk and, if it is impossible to know when they will switch or even if they will in fact switch to…
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