Adult mental health disorders and their age at onset.
Adult mental health disorders and their age at onset.
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DOI：
10.1192/bjp.bp.112.119164
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2013-01-01
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Jones, P B
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Jones, P B
对精神健康障碍发病年龄的研究在技术上和概念上都很困难。必须考虑这些年龄分布，以便了解疾病的原因和机制，并在适当的时候进行初级和二级预防。本文回顾了一些研究发病年龄的方法，列出了支持成人精神障碍开始于青春期这一论断的证据，并发现可能有一半的成人精神健康障碍是在青少年时期开始的。然后，本文讨论了这是否符合什么是已知的大脑发育神经生物学，并介绍了精神卫生服务的影响。
The study of age at onset of mental health disorders is technically and conceptually difficult. It is important to consider these age distributions in order to understand causes and mechanisms of illness and to intervene at an appropriate juncture for primary and secondary prevention. This article reviews some of the approaches to studying age at onset, sets out the evidence to support the assertion that adult mental disorders begin in adolescence, and finds that perhaps half of all adult mental health disorders have begun by the teenage years. The paper then discusses whether this fits what is known about the developmental neurobiology of the brain and introduces the implications for mental health services.