Disinhibited attachment behavior among infants reared at home: Relations to maternal severe mental illness and personality disorder symptoms.

Disinhibited attachment behavior (DAB) among infants is persistent and associated with behavioral and relational problems throughout childhood and adolescence. Little is known about risk factors for DAB among infants reared at home, although studies have linked DAB with maternal psychiatric hospitalization and maternal borderline personality disorder. The aim of the current study was to further assess the association between DAB, maternal severe mental illness (SMI; schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression), and maternal PD symptoms.

Hair cortisol concentrations in pregnant women with bipolar, depressive, or schizophrenic spectrum disorders.

Purpose: Maternal cortisol levels in pregnancy may support the growth of or adversely affect fetal organs, including the brain. While moderate cortisol levels are essential for fetal development, excessive or prolonged elevations may have negative health consequences for both the mother and the offspring. Little is known about predictors of altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity during pregnancy.

The longitudinal association of combined regulatory problems in infancy and mental health outcome in early childhood: a systematic review.

Co-occurring regulatory problems in infancy, RPs, including excessive crying, feeding-eating and sleeping, have been found associated with mental health problems in school ages. Still, an overview is needed on trajectories of co-occurring or combined RPs, and mental health problems in early childhood. The aim of this review is to systematically review the literature on longitudinal community-based studies of combined RPs measuring mental health outcomes in early childhood.

Prenatal and early childhood predictors of intelligence quotient (IQ) in 7-year-old Danish children from the Odense Child Cohort.

Background: Cognitive development measured as intelligence quotient can predict socioeconomic markers in adulthood. It is therefore of interest to determine predictors of childhood intelligence quotient.

Aim: To assess intelligence quotient scores based on standardised Danish age-appropriate scores and to evaluate potential predictors of intelligence quotient.

Mental and pediatric disorders among children 0-6 years of parents with severe mental illness.

Objective: Parental severe mental illness (SMI) increases the lifetime risk of mental and pediatric disorders in the offspring but little is known about specific disorders during early childhood. The primary aim was to investigate the incidence of mental and pediatric disorders among children 0-6 years old exposed to parental SMI, and secondarily to investigate the distribution of disorders on specific child age.

Methods: A nationwide, register-based cohort study of 1,477,185 children born in Denmark between 1994.

Parental mental illness, attendance at preventive child healthcare and dental caries in the offspring: a nation-wide population-based cohort study.

Purpose: Severe mental illness (SMI) may interfere with parental caregiving practices and offspring development. Adhering to preventive well-child visits and maintaining good oral hygiene during early childhood requires parental involvement. Whether these activities are affected by parental SMI is unclear.

Morbidity and Mortality in the Children and Young Adult Offspring of Parents With Schizophrenia or Affective Disorders-A Nationwide Register-Based Cohort Study in 2 Million Individuals.

Background: The offspring of parents with severe mental illness (SMI) are at higher risk of mortality and of developing certain somatic diseases. However, across the full spectrum of somatic illness, there remains a gap in knowledge regarding morbidity.

Methods: We conducted a register-based nationwide cohort study of all 2 000 694 individuals born in Denmark between 1982 and 2012.

Antenatal caregiving representations among expectant mothers with severe mental illness: a cross-sectional study.

: The study explores predictors of antenatal caregiving representations among mothers with a history of severe mental illness (SMI). : Attachment research has demonstrated that multifactorial assessment of antenatal caregiving representations predicts later maternal behaviour and child attachment. However, the field lacks research among clinical groups.

Mother-infant interaction in schizophrenia: transmitting risk or resilience? A systematic review of the literature.

Purpose: The parent-infant relationship is an important context for identifying very early risk and resilience factors and targets for the development of preventative interventions. The aim of this study was to systematically review studies investigating the early caregiver-infant relationship and attachment in offspring of parents with schizophrenia.

Methods: We searched computerized databases for relevant articles investigating the relationship between early caregiver-infant relationship and outcomes for offspring of a caregiver with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Anomalous self-experience in adolescents at risk of psychosis. Clinical and conceptual elucidation.

Background: In research and clinical settings, there is a growing interest in the prodromal state of psychosis. The condition is usually operationalized by the presence of weak positive symptoms. Some studies also point to disorders of self-awareness as a core characteristic of the schizophrenia spectrum detectable before the onset of psychosis.