Mental disorders may spread in young people’s social networks

Associations between having ninth-grade classmates with a mental disorder diagnosis and later risk of being diagnosed with a mental disorder. Credit: JAMA Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.1126 Using population-wide registry data, researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Manchester investigated whether mental disorders can be transmitted within social networks formed by school classes. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, is the largest and most comprehensive so far on the spread of mental disorders in social networks, with Read More