"In most countries refugees undergo standard health checks, but mental health issues can be overlooked," Kirkbride said in a release. "Like all people, refugees would benefit from timely and early treatment of any mental health problems.”
While the dataset doesn't include the most recent refugees and migrants, the study authors write that their findings could presumably apply to those currently seeking refuge in Europe from conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
"We presume that exposure to war, persecution, and exposure to other psychosocial adversity would have a universal effect on individual risk of psychosis, independent of other risk factors," they write.
The authors note that they couldn't measure post-migratory factors, such as racism and discrimination, to see what kind of effect that had on psychosis.
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In his introduction to his book, “Imbeciles,” Mr. Cohen says Buck v. Bell “is little remembered today.” But that’s not true, really: Mention the case at a midsize cocktail party of lawyers, and many will come back with “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” But ask whether they know that Hitler praised our state sterilization laws — now that, to most of them, would be news.
