Healio (4/13, Gramigna) reports, “Certain cognitive deficits in childhood were distinctively linked to different psychopathological symptoms among young people,” researchers concluded in a study that sought to assess “the specificity of associations between attention, working memory and inhibition in childhood and borderline personality disorder,” and “psychosis, depression and hypomania in adolescence and young adulthood.” Investigators analyzed data from “6,333 individuals for any psychopathological measures between ages 11 and 12 years, 4,903 between ages 17 and 18 years and 2,963 between ages 22 to 23 years.” The findings of the cohort study were published online April 7 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Childhood cognitive deficits play role in later mental health problems “Joe Gramigna, Healio, April 13, 2021