The relationship between cognitive clusters and telomere length in bipolar-schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Caroline T GurvichNatalie ThomasAbdul-Rahman HudaibTamsyn E Van RheenenElizabeth H X ThomasEric J TanErica NeillSean P CarruthersPhilip J SumnerMarco Romano-SilvaKiymet BozaogluJayashri KulkarniSusan L RossellPublished in: Psychological medicine (2022)
This study replicates previous findings of transdiagnostic cognitive subgroups and associates shorter telomere length with the severely impaired cognitive subgroup. These findings support emerging literature associating cognitive impairments in psychiatric disorders to accelerated cellular aging as indexed by telomere length.