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Recent data (JW Psychiatry Apr 13 2012) suggest that clinicians should closely follow individuals with attenuated psychotic symptoms (APSs) to try to prevent the onset of psychosis. Yet, as many as one third of the general population may experience APSs. These investigators studied the relationship between self-reported APSs (e.g., mild delusions, hallucinations, bizarre thinking, feeling possessed or dissolved) and later psychiatric hospitalization among 4914 Israelis participating in an epidemiological study (mean age at baseline, 29). Hospitalizations were determined from a national database (mean follow-up, 24 years).
At baseline, 57% of subjects had at least one infrequent APS, and 14% had at least one frequent APS. Mean APS score corre…