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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 175
  • Number 11
  • November 2018

Editorials

Clinical Case Conference

Treatment in Psychiatry

Perspectives in Global Mental Health

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 17 September 2018

Pages1073–1083

Epidemiologic studies, including prospective birth cohort investigations, have implicated maternal immune activation in the etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. Maternal infectious pathogens and inflammation are plausible risk factors for these ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17121311

Publication date: 02 August 2018

Pages1084–1093

The importance of maternal depression for child outcomes is well established, and impairments in psychosocial function and parenting are as severe in women with high subsyndromal levels of depressive symptoms as they are in women with clinical depression. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17091031

Articles

Publication date: 16 August 2018

Pages1094–1101

Objective: Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with a largely unknown etiology. To date, few studies have investigated prenatal exposure to toxins and risk of autism by using maternal biomarkers of exposure. Persistent organic pollutants are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17101129

Publication date: 20 June 2018

Pages1102–1110

Objective: Clinical depression in children as young as age 3 has been validated, and prevalence rates are similar to the school-age disorder. Homotypic continuity between early and later childhood depression has been observed, with alterations in brain ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18030321

Publication date: 02 August 2018

Pages1129–1136

Objective: This study tested for differences of white matter integrity between treated and never-treated long-term schizophrenia patients, matched on illness duration, and for differential changes in relation to age in these two groups relative to healthy ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17121402

Publication date: 19 July 2018

Pages1137–1144

Objective: The authors examined the heritability of treated major depression in a twin and full/half-sibling design, to describe key genetic epidemiological features of major depression and to determine which clinical indices of genetic liability optimally ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17111251

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