Parental Age as a Risk Factor for Bipolar Disorder | Psydir News

Links shared publicly online about this topic.

  • 1,044
    total visits

Parental Age as a Risk Factor for Bipolar Disorder | Psydir News

news.psydir.com

Advanced parental age appears to confer increased risk for a variety of clinical neuroscience disorders. First described in Down syndrome, advanced parental age at conception has now been linked to schizophrenia and autism. Effects of advanced parental age on risk have been found for both fathers and mothers. Some disorders appear to have more risk with paternal age while other appear to have m...

View full resource at news.psydir.com

Tags: Genetic, Down Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Disease and Condition, News, Neuroscience

  • Share

Most Recently Shared on July 5, 2010 at 6:17 pm By:

psydir PsyDir News

Parental Age as a Risk Factor for Bipolar Disorder http://goo.gl/fb/DVevP #psychologyarticles

2 years ago...

Advertisement