Psychiatric Disorders in Child and Adolescent Offspring of Parents with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders.

Offspring of parents with bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are vulnerable and at high risk for these disorders. Despite the fact that positive family history of SZ or BD is the strongest predictor for the development of these severe mental illnesses, there is limited evidence assessing young adults of SZ and BP simultaneously with lack of detailed handling of similarities in risk and developmental trajectories during adolescence