Penn Medicine: Cognitive development 'growth charts' may help diagnose and treat psychosis-risk kids

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Penn Medicine researchers have developed a better way to assess and diagnose psychosis in young children. By "growth charting" cognitive development alongside the presentation of psychotic symptoms, they have demonstrated that the most significant lags in cognitive development correlate with the most severe cases of psychosis. Their findings are published online this month in JAMA Psychiatry.