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Psychotic symptoms in children may have a genetic cause
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Psychotic symptoms in children may have a genetic cause

by Children’s Hospital Boston Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A 6-year-old boy began hearing voices coming from the walls and the school intercom telling him to hurt himself and others. He saw ghosts, aliens in trees, and colored footprints. Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD, a psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital, put him on antipsychotic medications and the frightening...