Do prenatal risk factors cause psychiatric disorder? Be wary of causal claims (Editorial)

Thapar, Anita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3689-737X and Rutter, Michael 2009. Do prenatal risk factors cause psychiatric disorder? Be wary of causal claims (Editorial). British Journal of Psychiatry 195 (2) , pp. 100-101. 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.062828

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Abstract

Many prenatal risk factors are known to have adverse consequences on fetal development and there is increasing interest in effects on the mental health of offspring. However, associations with prenatal risk factors may arise because of postnatal risk or through confounders, including inherited ones. As a result, caution is required in assuming causation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Publisher:	Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28891

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