Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature

By Ronald C. Kessler, G. Amminger, S. Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Sing Lee, T Bedirhan ??st??n. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Twelve-month and lifetime prevalence and lifetime morbid risk of anxiety and mood disorders in the United States (2012, positive): “Estimates of lifetime prevalence and LMR will typically be quite similar for disorders that usually start early in life, while the two estimates will diverge more and more for disorders with increasingly later ages-of-onset (Kessler et al., 2005a, 2007b).”
The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction. (2015, background): “The speed with which addiction emerges is influenced by genetics, with some individuals transitioning faster than others due to genetic vulnerabilities (Kessler et al., 2007).”
Childhood adversities and first onset of psychiatric disorders in a national sample of adolescents (2012, positive): “To evaluate this possibility, we conducted a more detailed analysis examining the associations of CAs with individual disorders and found that the CAs considered herein generally have the strongest associations within DSM-IV disorder classes with the disorders that have early ages at onset.(53) For ”
The Theory of Emerging Adulthood 20 Years Later: A Look at Where It Has Taken Us, What We Know Now, and Where We Need to Go (2020, background): “& Üstün, T. B. (2007). Age of onset of mental disorders: A review of”
The Cellular and Molecular Landscapes of the Developing Human Central Nervous System (2016, positive): “This variability is indicative of dysregulation of tightly controlled developmental processes and highlights the necessity of defining the spatiotemporal molecular and cellular processes in healthy and diseased human CNS. Based in part on data from Kessler et al. (2007) and Lee et al. (2014).”
The WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and Distribution of Mental Disorders (2018, positive): “However, given that the college years are a peak period for onset of many common mental disorders, particularly mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders (de Girolamo, Dagani, Purcell, Cocchi, & McGorry, 2012; Kessler et al., 2007), it is not surprising that epidemiological studies consistently fin”
A systematic review: the influence of social media on depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adolescents (2019, background): “It is estimated that 50% of all mental disorders are established by the age of 14 and 75% by the age of 18 (Kessler et al., 2007; Kim-Cohen et al., 2003).”
Mental health literacy: empowering the community to take action for better mental health. (2012, result): “Similar ages of onset have been found in other countries (Kessler et al., 2007 ).”
Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial (2017, background): “Up to 74% of mental health diagnoses have their first onset before the age of 24 [1].”
College Students: Mental Health Problems and Treatment Considerations (2014, background): “[5] observed that by the age of 25 years, 75% of those who will have a mental health disorder have had their first onset.”
Epidemiology of mental disorders in children and adolescents (2009, background): “The cumulative lifetime prevalence of mental disorders derived from these long-term follow-up studies(17,19-21,101) tend to be even greater than the retrospective estimates of lifetime prevalence reported in adult psychiatric epidemiology.(2,102)”
The epidemiology of depression across cultures (2013, background): “Many mental disorders have ages-of-onset (AOO) in childhood or adolescence, and the median AOO of ever having any mental disorder in the general population is during the teenage years in most countries (51).”
Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Brain Development. (2015, positive): “Adolescence as a Sensitive Period for the Effects of Stress on Mental Health Many mental illnesses have their onset in adolescence and early adulthood [38,39].”